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1. Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts: (Regional News); ... contrast with Pan American Silver’s discourse as a responsible mining company, the map documents social and environmental conflicts over its mines from Mexico to Argentina, including lack of respect for ...; Created on 02 March 2020
2. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Bukele has shown no interest in implementing pending aspects of the mining prohibitions of 2017, like environmental remediation and reparation for the victims of the mining conflicts." "On the contrary," ...; Created on 20 January 2023
3. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... informed consultation in the extractive industry is a driver of socio-environmental conflicts in Guatemala. As González stated, “impunity and the trade of private interests is a characteristic of the mining ...; Created on 22 September 2022
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... these conflicts in our territories have to do with the control of the few remaining resources. We witness how national investors want to be partners with foreign investors and exert pressure on the territories ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... potential reversal of the Law for the Prohibition of Metallic Mining would generate possible conflicts between communities and mining companies, exacerbate the country's water and environmental crisis and ...; Created on 16 December 2021
6. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... abroad. And, as you might expect, many of those projects involve shady corporate practices and violations of human rights. There have been an astounding number of conflicts at Canadian-run mines. Pick ...; Created on 07 May 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... industries and causing conflicts with communities. The corporate-friendly General Mining Law lifted a seven-year moratorium on new mining projects — it was developed with technical assistance and funding ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Too often, these groups’ close ties to business elites place them on the wrong side of conflicts between local communities and development projects tainted by crime or corruption. Sometimes these tribunals ...; Created on 23 April 2021
9. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... regulations for industry. Transnational mining in Espinar - Structural problems and the presence of Glencore Just as transnational mining didn’t go into quarantine, neither did the conflicts inherent ...; Created on 22 April 2021
10. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... risks of the mine, began regular protests and strikes in 2013 while the project was still in planning, leading to conflicts with the police. In January 2018, Tahoe denied claims from local activists and ...; Created on 21 January 2021
11. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... Canadian authorities mean that conflicts like this one will continue to proliferate. However, efforts by organizations and communities to share and disseminate their struggles and experiences as widely ...; Created on 28 November 2020
12. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... as a result of trumped-up criminal charges. According to a recent report by the UN Working Group on business and human rights, the “root cause of most social conflicts [in Honduras] is the systematic ...; Created on 07 October 2020
13. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... As a result, the Environmental Conflict Task Force to resolve mining conflicts was created. Two months later, residents at the Guapinol camp were violently evicted by approximately 1,500 soldiers. The ...; Created on 25 September 2020
14. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... of the 32 entities where they are located, there are conflicts of different degrees of tension. Canoero points out that the conflict begins with the announcement of a mining project, but it intensifies ...; Created on 09 August 2020
15. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... and other extractive projects, who have faced particularly intense forms of harassment and repression from police and military, exacerbating territorial conflicts. Meanwhile, human rights and environmental ...; Created on 23 July 2020
16. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... later conflicts? Despite Anglo American’s claims that the inspections carried out under Participatory Environmental Monitoring for 5 years suggest that Quellaveco does not have negative effects on the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
17. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... with local populations, and their projects have generated conflicts and serious human rights violations in a climate of impunity. The United States and Canada, with the tacit approval of the international ...; Created on 20 April 2020
18. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... conflicts caused by the industry. ------------------- Translated by: Giada Ferrucci Translated from: https://gatoencerrado.news/2019/11/13/ambientalistas-senalan-que-gobiernos-centroamericanos-favorecen-a-mineras-y-criminalizan-a-activistas/ ...; Created on 26 December 2019
19. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... The Bajo Aguan Region in northern Honduras has historically been the setting for violent territorial disputes. Conflicts in the region can be traced back to the 1960s and 70s, when the Honduran government ...; Created on 24 October 2019
20. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... them and their increasing use in cases of social and mining conflicts in Peru is both urgent and important. According to Pablo Abdo, a human rights lawyer from the Institute for the Study of Andean Cultures ...; Created on 28 August 2018

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