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1. A Binding Treaty about corporations can be an instrument to guarantee the respect of our rights and territories: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería “Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. ...; Created on 14 November 2017
2. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... government promote regulations that guarantee mining-free borders with a shared basin approach and give priority to the negotiation of a Treaty of transboundary waters. We alert the international community ...; Created on 21 September 2022
3. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... the tri national basin of the Lempa River is a resource shared as a unitary set of superficial and underground water bodies that flow to a common river mouth, as such it is an important resource that guarantees ...; Created on 12 June 2022
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... and sentenced in the United States for drug trafficking. Honduras is a country where there are no constitutional or institutional guarantees for those of us who defend life. That is the product of the ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... we will continue to demand a General Water Law that guarantees sustainability and the human rights of the population, above the interests of any oligarchic group in the country. Water is not for sale, ...; Created on 23 December 2021
6. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... ratification of the human right to water in the Constitution and expedite the approval of a general water law that guarantees, as a priority, water for domestic consumption, which is economically accessible ...; Created on 16 December 2021
7. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the door to renewed debate on metallic mining in El Salvador and threatens the guarantee of rights achieved with the ban of this industry in 2017. The central issue in the debate on metallic mining in ...; Created on 14 December 2021
8. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... report closes demanding that the current government of Nayib Bukele guarantee that the mining prohibition will not be reversed and that the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), and ...; Created on 29 June 2021
9. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... to guarantee impunity for those persecuting defenders. The United States and Canada play a key role in the current crisis. They have geostrategic and economic interests in Honduras, through trade agreements ...; Created on 06 May 2021
10. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Dulce said in a message to Mongabay. “As part of its investment guarantees, the Mining Act commits government to ensuring the removal of obstacles to mining, and that includes conflicting land uses such ...; Created on 15 April 2021
11. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... letters of credit, corporate guarantees and other mechanisms. DHEC did not directly address whether more cash would be required, but a spokeswoman indicated in an email that the $10 million in cash posted ...; Created on 30 March 2021
12. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... legal team have followed up with all the institutions responsible for guaranteeing the release of the defenders and they have done nothing. Now, one of the defenders, who suffers from a pre-existing condition, ...; Created on 14 March 2021
13. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... assets or property, or indirect, such as depriving an investor of the value of its investment through regulatory action or other governmental measures. Investment treaties typically guarantee that a state ...; Created on 06 January 2021
14. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... way to guarantee food and support small producers who rely less on external chemical-based products: “(With organic agriculture) we have a cleaner production, everyone can participate in farming at home, ...; Created on 05 January 2021
15. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... of the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers should be revoked because it constitutes an arbitrary measure contrary to international standards on human rights and guarantees of due process. In a press conference, ...; Created on 28 December 2020
16. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... General Water Law that would guarantee the human right to water, protect community water councils, and prevent the sale and contamination of water resources. More than 90% of El Salvador’s potable water ...; Created on 01 December 2020
17. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the deputies, the change concerns Article 2 of the Constitution, which establishes that water is a human right. Thus the article guarantees individual and fundamental rights, such as life, physical and ...; Created on 30 November 2020
18. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... who have peacefully protested demanding the guarantee of social, cultural and environmental rights as human rights,” according to a Saint Isidro Parish statement released in August 2019 when the jailed ...; Created on 25 September 2020
19. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... while riding roughshod over community opposition. KCA knew that, at the end of the day, international arbitration could guarantee them millions in profits,” remarked Guatemalan investigative journalist ...; Created on 24 August 2020
20. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... case is emblematic for all those who are fighting to guarantee their rights against extractive projects in their territories". For the eight defenders already in pretrial detention, Magistrates María Luisa ...; Created on 18 August 2020

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