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1. ICSID on the bench of the accused: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Rufo Valencia - Radio Canada International Manuel Perez Rocha interviewed by Radio Canada International. Click here to hear the interview. One year ago, an international coalition of civil society organizations, ...; Created on 14 November 2017
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega. These figures, who all played a role in lobbying for the 2017 mining ban, are accused of “illicit associations” and committing ...; Created on 06 April 2023
3. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...; Created on 04 April 2023
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Laínez, Teodoro Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were detained in northern El Salvador on January 11. In a case that critics call politically motivated, they are accused of murdering an alleged ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... these people are accused of committing a murder during the civil war (1980-1992) and of illicit associations. This last offense relates the case to the narrative of the current government’s “state of exception” ...; Created on 13 January 2023
6. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of strategic aquifers while water defenders in localities like Valle de Ángel in Apopa, the La Labor community in Ahuachapán and many others are accused of terrorism, persecuted and imprisoned. Faced ...; Created on 14 December 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... Pinares is owned by Lenir Pérez, a businessman previously accused of human rights violations, and Ana Facussé, daughter of the late palm oil magnate, Miguel Facussé. Even though the mine hasn’t yet exploited ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); CNCA Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused ...; Created on 02 March 2021
9. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... who have peacefully opposed the mine for years, were falsely accused of sedition, making them targets for extrajudicial killings,” said Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada. “In 2020, police used violent ...; Created on 25 February 2021
10. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... which Hernández has been implicated or directly accused of involvement in drug trafficking—the bill would impose sanctions on the Honduran president for corruption and human rights abuses and suspend U.S. ...; Created on 23 February 2021
11. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue: (OceanaGold); ... the last year that the company has run into trouble with the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and follows other violations noted in 2018 and 2019 The company is accused of releasing ...; Created on 15 February 2021
12. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... with the government to address these concerns, but was ignored. Protesters began sit-ins and other actions, and were accused of starting fires and confrontations with police, a charge Aduviri denies. The ...; Created on 21 January 2021
13. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 32 people, including one man who died three years before the alleged incidents, have been charged with multiple offences and the community’s grassroots group falsely accused of ties to organized crime. ...; Created on 07 October 2020
14. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... men in jail, along with the other five who originally had their case dismissed, now face detention and arson charges. Under Honduran law, these charges do not require the detention of the accused, but ...; Created on 25 September 2020
15. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... group of community members handed themselves in to clarify their legal position with respect to the case in February 2019. All charges were quickly dropped against them. A further eight of the accused ...; Created on 01 September 2020
16. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... Antonio López, Carlos Leonel George, Reynaldo Domínguez, José Adalí Cedillo Mendoza, and Marco Tulio Ramos. The court also ordered the formal prosecution of the accused along with 8 other defenders ...; Created on 20 August 2020
17. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Goodman. We turn now to Honduras, where preliminary hearings are set to begin today for one of the men accused of murdering the indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead in her ...; Created on 17 August 2020
18. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... as alleged fronts of the CPP. Gen. Parlade accused these organizations of soliciting financial and material support for CPP and their armed revolution in the guise of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...; Created on 21 April 2020
19. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... left aside the most serious fact, which was the shooting." Activists are accused of aggravated arson and unfair deprivation of liberty of an employee of the security company. They deny the allegations. ...; Created on 20 April 2020
20. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... the most severe measure that can be applied to the accused of a crime, for which reason it must be “exceptional in nature, by virtue of being limited by the principles of legality, presumption of innocence, ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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