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1. Anti-mining leaders asks presidential candidates to make explicit their position on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... by the National Roundtable Against Mining to make El Salvador the first country to prohibit metal mining in the world. During 20 years of consecutive ARENA governments, concessions for mining explorations ...; Created on 21 November 2013
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... workshop, or movie night). Lobby lawmakers in your country to make a statement in support of the Santa Marta 5 defenders. Donate or help fundraise for the legal defense fund for the Santa ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... valued at around $25 billion, while its debt is around $20 billion. “But still,” said University of Georgia professor Julio Sevilla, “you cannot really afford to make bad investments when your finances ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that culminated in El Salvador's legislature voting unanimously in 2017 to make that country the first in the world to ban all metals mining to save its rivers," IPS senior adviser John Cavanagh told Common ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... stop discrediting, stigmatizing, and persecuting organized communities and their organizations. We also ask the International Community to be attentive to what is happening in the country to make statements ...; Created on 13 January 2023
6. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... are important because they make it possible to strengthen local democracy, promote transparency in the public administration, and are tools for citizens to exercise their democratic rights. While Bluestone ...; Created on 22 September 2022
7. 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); ... Study has not been approved by the Ministry of the Environment of Guatemala. 10. That, open pit mining means the removal of the surface layer of the earth to make mineral deposits accessible and therefore ...; Created on 12 June 2022
8. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... (Charter Cities as the ZEDE have also been called) have become the death blow to make us disappear as a people. As such, we promoted several cases before the Inter-American Human Rights System. We have ...; Created on 25 December 2021
9. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... to review the current cooperation agreements with construction companies, and it does not make it subordinate to the ASA (Salvadorean Water Authority) established in the law. Considering that the ASA ...; Created on 23 December 2021
10. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... numerous health hazards for community members. At some point, the Commission on Human Rights stated that the demolition of the houses of the community members to make way for mining consisted of human ...; Created on 02 June 2021
11. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... by lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc. “Local 'no mining zones' and a legislated prohibition of the destructive open pit method will allow us to conserve our mineral resources until such time a genuine ...; Created on 27 May 2021
12. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), who was a former House lawmaker, stated. In an article, Ibon Foundation, an independent think tank, claimed that the government has “exaggerated” ...; Created on 24 May 2021
13. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); CNCA Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation that provides lawmakers with a blueprint for writing into Canadian law the corporate duty to respect ...; Created on 21 May 2021
14. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... which was forcibly displaced to make way for mine expansion in 2017. During the AGM, Beaty called the La Colorada mine a “massive win for our shareholders” and failed to acknowledge the human suffering ...; Created on 17 May 2021
15. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... was not given full investigative powers, limiting its ability to make any meaningful interventions or policy recommendations on issues related to human rights abuses abroad. The name “ombudsperson” is ...; Created on 12 May 2021
16. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... requests in 2014. The documents released to date, though redacted, show that Canadian officials engaged on Goldcorp’s behalf with decision-makers in Guatemala and Washington after the Organization ...; Created on 11 May 2021
17. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... both of the population through the popular vote, and from the Cantons that make up the country. Not all is lost however, as a counter-proposal is emerging in the Swiss parliament which, although with ...; Created on 22 April 2021
18. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marcelo Rivera organized a team and raised the money to make uniforms that read “Out With Pac Rim” and “No to Mining.” They won the tournament. In another case, Broad and Cavanagh write, “At one of their ...; Created on 11 April 2021
19. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Nation Robin Broad and John Cavanagh In March 2017, people from poorer communities across El Salvador stood up to corporate power and convinced their legislature to make their country the first ...; Created on 05 April 2021
20. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... So it sounds like it was one lawmaker facing the facts on the ground. Robin, what do you think was key to bringing these former foes together? Robin Broad: First of all, the water defenders essentially ...; Created on 22 March 2021

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