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1. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... militarization in the five municipalities and the president of the republic to guarantee the rights and physical integrity of environmental defenders. Social and environmental leaders indicated that ...; Created on 20 July 2020
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); International week of action to defend El Salvador´s mining ban and demand the release of the five Water Defenders of Santa Marta As social organizations in El Salvador recently celebrated the sixth ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... prohibition is facing new threats. On January 11, the Salvadoran government ordered the arrest of five prominent anti-mining activists and water defenders: Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Guardian Nina Lakhani Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...; Created on 04 April 2023
5. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...; Created on 03 April 2023
6. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on environmentally destructive metal mining. More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to pressure the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against and release five water ...; Created on 20 January 2023
7. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); TeleSur Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war. On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economic Development ...; Created on 19 January 2023
8. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... during the war, but the State did not respond for 30 years to their demands for justice and has now opted to prosecute five of its members. This system treats victims as perpetrators and perpetrators as ...; Created on 13 January 2023
9. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... people. In the last five years alone, more than 50 Garífuna men and women have been killed; 30 have been jailed and 32 have a court order, prosecuted for the alleged usurpation of their own ancestral ...; Created on 25 December 2021
10. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... cents on the dollar. Five-year credit default swaps increased 7 basis points to 97 points. Until yesterday afternoon, with 93.8% of the votes counted in Sunday's election, Castillo leads with 50.2% ...; Created on 08 June 2021
11. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... awaits the peoples of Southern Mindanao. The project will potentially impact five major river systems: Buayan, Taplan, Padada, Alip, and Manteo, and as the rivers flow, the impacts will be felt in Ligawasan ...; Created on 02 June 2021
12. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... walked away too and it has since been labeled a “time bomb”. There have been five emergency declarations due to the high levels of heavy metal contamination in the Moche river from acid mine drainage, ...; Created on 17 May 2021
13. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... widely as possible". The Working Group(WG) is a specialized body of the United Nations, composed of five independent experts from different regions of the world, authorized by the UN Human Rights ...; Created on 11 May 2021
14. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...; Created on 06 May 2021
15. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... millions out of work. The Philippines is one of the world's biggest suppliers of nickel ore and is also rich in copper and gold, but Duterte said less than five percent of the country's mineral reserves ...; Created on 05 May 2021
16. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... an international coalition—paid off at critical moments. In October 2016, the World Bank tribunal where their international partners held protests dismissed the mining company’s claims. Five months later, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
17. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... transnational dedicated to the production and marketing of raw materials. It has mining operations in more than 50 countries and its revenues in 2019 exceeded $215 billion – five times more than Bolivia’s ...; Created on 22 April 2021
18. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... one of the most biodiverse areas in the country, the order could potentially greenlight the operations of at least five mining applications, according to the Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC). ...; Created on 15 April 2021
19. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects—Pristine Bay and Palmetto Bay—on the Honduran island of Roatán, where she serves as vice-president of the patronato, the community governing council. Her family has been in Crawfish Rock for five ...; Created on 15 February 2021
20. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the local peasant community, wounding five people. The community alleged that Tahoe was behind the attack, and that it was an attempt to scare them off the land in order for the company to take control. ...; Created on 21 January 2021

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