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1. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); P. Cabezas As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful ...; Created on 07 January 2016
2. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... massacre in 1980, where 30 people were assassinated and 189 were disappeared), the government is now re-victimizing the community by targeting their leaders, who have been outspoken against the policies ...; Created on 20 January 2023
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... the rulings of the Inter-American Human Rights System and has intensified the criminalization, repression, and prosecution of the Garífuna people. Human rights defenders have been assassinated and four ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... Honduras is the deadliest place in the world for environmental defenders. Hundreds of them have been killed since 2009, including the Indigenous environmental leader Berta Càceres, who was assassinated ...; Created on 06 May 2021
5. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Rivera and three other defenders were brutally assassinated. But Marcelo’s brother Miguel, their friend Vidalina Morales, and the members of La Mesa never gave up. They linked up with international allies ...; Created on 05 April 2021
6. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... assassinated. These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...; Created on 28 March 2021
7. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... lack of transparency and meaningful participation” of communities affected by the exploitation of natural resources. The highest-profile victim was the indigenous defender Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated ...; Created on 07 October 2020
8. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to justify this prolonged detention. Berta Cáceres, assassinated in March 2016, was a courageous ecologist and prominent land rights activist from the indigenous Lenka community in Honduras. She was ...; Created on 29 September 2020
9. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... government has not adequately complied with them. More than 140 peasant leaders in Honduras have been assassinated since 2010. "Although threats against human rights defenders have been reported to the ...; Created on 31 July 2020
10. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... that from 2009 to 2013, more than 123 people had been assassinated and six had been disappeared as a result of land related conflicts. But conflict is not restricted to the expansion of large monocrop ...; Created on 24 October 2019
11. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... intellectual authors of the murders of environmental defenders who were assassinated in 2009, second we need to ensure that Minerales Torogoz, and the El Dorado Foundation leave Cabañas, and third we need ...; Created on 08 February 2018
12. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... activists were killed in 2012 under circumstances similar to those in which five activists were assassinated in Cabañas province in El Salvador. In 2017, the new government of the Philippines had finally ...; Created on 26 June 2017
13. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... were assassinated as early as 2009. And it helped that international allies, in addition to the pressure of their protests, garnered enormous international press attention to the fight. Putting this in ...; Created on 26 June 2017
14. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... for a reflection to continue the legacy and work of the three environmentalists assassinated for their ideals, and invited all to unite and leave their differences against the false promises of this mining ...; Created on 03 January 2017
15. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... 17, 2011 - Juan Franciso Durán Ayala. A student anti-mining activist assassinated resisting Pacific Rim-OceanaGold in El Salvador. December 7, 2012 - Cheryl Ananayo and Randy Nabayay. Ananayo was a member ...; Created on 10 November 2016
16. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... cultural and environmental leader who opposed the mine, was tortured and assassinated. While questions remain, many activists believe that pro-mining forces—including local politicians who stood to benefit ...; Created on 10 November 2016
17. Staying alert for the ICSID resolution: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... activists were assassinated. Although the Salvadoran defense in the ICSID has expressed confidence in a favorable ruling (since Pacific Rim-Oceana Gold did not present any valid argument), the National ...; Created on 26 September 2016
18. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the military and the paramilitary killed over 500 farmers. The political legacy of the resistance can be seen on murals all over the village. Even archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, appears ...; Created on 03 February 2016
19. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... ambush that saw Ramiro Rivera assassinated in 2009. She has since lived in exile in Guatemala while Mr. Guevara's life has had to change drastically as he travels back and forth from a second home he ...; Created on 30 December 2014
20. CALL FOR SUPPORT: International month of action against Canadian/Australian miner OceanaGold: (International Month of Action); ... activists have been assassinated since 2009 whose murders have not been ade-quately investigated. Many other environmental defenders currently live under continuous death threats against their lives and ...; Created on 04 September 2014

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