search

1. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); FIDES Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...; Created on 15 June 2021
2. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... at his parish and worked as a mason. “I’m really proud of him,” Ms. Sorto says. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the seven men, plus another who has been in jail since December 2018, have not been allowed ...; Created on 25 September 2020
3. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the country. We also have concerns that these men have been denied their basic right to due process,” 17 U.S. members of Congress said in a letter earlier this month. Known locally as “water defenders,” ...; Created on 20 December 2023
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... law was passed in the a law to create a Directorate of Energy Mines and Hydrocarbons. Community leaders in Cabañas have also denounced the presence of employees of mining companies offering long-term leases ...; Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... dozens of cases that have been started by survivors of military massacres that have not gone to trial. Three specific cases are those of the Lempa massacre (forty-three killed, 189 disappeared), the Los ...; Created on 06 April 2023
6. 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
7. 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
8. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... have, for decades, been calling for justice." "The current government, however, has chosen to actively uphold decades of impunity," the groups continued. "Rather than investigate or prosecute those responsible ...; Created on 20 January 2023
9. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... - which involves the suspension of various constitutional rights-, but in this case, it should not apply because those charged have no relationships with gangs. In view of these events, the undersigned ...; Created on 13 January 2023
10. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... Mita have already exercised their right to be consulted as per the political constitution of the republic and the municipal code, and the overwhelming results should be considered indicative for government ...; Created on 23 September 2022
11. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... of Jutiapa in Guatemala and is home to the Cerro Blanco mining project. Local communities and environmental organizations have long been concerned about the environmental impacts of this project on shared ...; Created on 22 September 2022
12. 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); ... damages to the environment, water and ecosystems. 9. That the company BLUESTONE RESOURCES still does not have the approval of the environmental license for open pit mining as its Environmental Impact ...; Created on 12 June 2022
13. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... been one of the voices that have warned about what is happening in Honduras: the dispossession of the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples and what she considers to be the genocide of the Garifuna ...; Created on 25 December 2021
14. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining El Salvador San Salvador December 16, 2021 - Only four years have passed since El Salvador banned metal mining in all its forms. ...; Created on 16 December 2021
15. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... an effort to provide incentives for artisanal miners to convert to more sustainable occupations, reparations for families that were victims of mining violence have not been issued, no efforts have been ...; Created on 29 June 2021
16. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Peru have already been counted, while only 21% of the votes abroad have been counted. Around 997,000 Peruvians were authorized to vote abroad and so far Fujimori has won 63% of the votes cast. For investors, ...; Created on 08 June 2021
17. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations ...; Created on 07 June 2021
18. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... meeting was chaired by the Vice Minister of Sustainable Development for MEM, Oscar Pérez. In chronological order, Pérez made a presentation concerning the meetings that have been held with the Xinka People ...; Created on 26 May 2021
19. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); Bulatlat Adam Ang Oceanagold’s mining operations in Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya have dried up the sources of water, polluted the environment and crippled the livelihood of farmers. “We won’t be ...; Created on 24 May 2021
20. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Derivada [El Tambor] mine, they have not yet received the execution, so the preparatory process cannot begin. This ruling is not yet final because the Constitutional Court must resolve extensions that ...; Created on 22 May 2021

Start
Prev
1
2
3
Next
End

Allied Organizations

Contact Us