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1. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); EuroNews The Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize every year to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. In 2019 the prize was awarded to Ilham ...; Created on 29 September 2020
2. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... the rights of the Garífuna people, OFRANEH received the Letelier-Moffitt Prize for Human Rights from the Institute for Political Studies (IPS). * The territory of the Garífuna people in Honduras has ...; Created on 25 December 2021
3. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... the committee members were nominated for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded annually by the European Union. Yet, in Honduras, these same activists are victims of defamation campaigns, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
4. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... improvement of gold prizes in the international market. Still, these reasons raised several doubts among the Guatemalan population. Guatemalan environmentalists believe that the closure of the Cerro ...; Created on 21 April 2020
5. DHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award: (Regional News); DHUMA -Human Rights and Environment- from Puno, Peru has been recognised for their tireless work in defence of indigenous rights in southern Peru with prestigious international human rights prize. DEMOCRACY ...; Created on 16 September 2019
6. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... only this, the prize was also an important step in consolidating the relationship between the Roundtable and IPS that would be crucial in the international campaign against the ISDS case. For Vidalina ...; Created on 23 June 2017
7. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to Washington to receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, a prize that brought international recognition to this struggle. Then when we made our first trip to Cabañas ...; Created on 10 November 2016
8. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... makes his living in the rolling farmland surrounding Ilobasco, and has become one of the most internationally renowned Salvadoran environmentalists. He was awarded the 2011 Goldman Prize for his “courage” ...; Created on 13 February 2014
9. Mining Ambition Impedes Environmental Justice: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the other cases, they say it was because of personal feuds,” says Pineda, who in 2011 received the Goldman Prize, one of the most recognized prizes on an international level, for his struggle against ...; Created on 18 July 2012
10. The Environmental and Social Costs of Pacific Rim in El Salvador: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Development of Santa Marta reports that 100 families have been already been affected by the lack of water. Francisco Pineda, Goldman Prize winner in 2011 for his work resisting mining in Cabañas, first ...; Created on 29 February 2012
11. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); The Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize every year to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. In 2019 the prize was awarded to Ilham Tohti, an ...; Created on 29 September 2020

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