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1. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...; Created on 27 November 2013
2. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...; Created on 27 November 2013
3. New acts of violence and intimidation against members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... her home before violently snatching her belongings and taking all documentation and identification she was carrying. It is not the first time violence occurs against our members. In the past, men and ...; Created on 09 July 2013
4. Pacific Rim’s announcement of a US $315 million increase in its law suit against El Salvador denounced by members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - APRIL 04, 2013 Canadian mining company Pacific Rim has announced it will increase to US $315 million its demand against the Salvadoran Government for failing to grant a license ...; Created on 03 April 2013
5. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... economic, legal and environmental aspects" According to MARN, “El Salvador recently joined this Forum, which includes 78 countries around the world and which provides a series of services to its members, ...; Created on 16 December 2021
6. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of over 50 countries promoting mining called the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development and based in Ottawa, Canada. Two participants in the Forum, and members of the board ...; Created on 14 December 2021
7. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... bridge the active participation of members of the MNFM in the presentation of an Amicus Curiae at the ICSID and in numerous international solidarity actions across the world. When the struggle took a violent ...; Created on 29 June 2021
8. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... police actions to defend the company’s interests and repress community members. Just a couple of weeks ago, police put on an intimidating show of force on behalf of KCA, a reminder of the strong government ...; Created on 07 June 2021
9. 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
10. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... (MARN), Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), Presidential Commission for Dialogue, the University of San Carlos of Guatemala (USAC), members of Community Development Councils (COCODES) and the Municipal ...; Created on 26 May 2021
11. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: (La Puya International Support Letter); Guatemala Solidarity Kevo Dell The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya (La Resistencia Pacifica La Puya) published the above announcement regarding the encroachment of members of the National Police into ...; Created on 23 May 2021
12. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Convention 169. Even after the eviction in 2014 and the court ruling in 2016, members of La Puya continued a 24-hour presence in opposition to the mine. What has just happened? Prensa Comunitaria ...; Created on 22 May 2021
13. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... its involvement in the Navidad project given clear and unwavering social opposition in Chubut. Rising tensions and violence against community members is also a concern at the company’s suspended Escobal ...; Created on 17 May 2021
14. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... rights abuses and environmental devastation. But they are up against a very powerful lobbying group and a government with very little will to transform the industry. In 2010, a private members bill was ...; Created on 12 May 2021
15. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
16. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... road to the mine. In response, community members in Tocoa, including Morazán, established the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods to campaign against the dispossession of natural ...; Created on 06 May 2021
17. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...; Created on 23 April 2021
18. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... OceanaGold’s private security force also used violence against community members. The commission also found that the company had erected fences and checkpoints on roads used by locals, as well as using ...; Created on 22 April 2021
19. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... him, stopping the landfill but not the 70,000 hogs. Brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, Broad and Cavanagh write, were key members of that opposition. They founded the first library and culture center ...; Created on 11 April 2021
20. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Rivera and three other defenders were brutally assassinated. But Marcelo’s brother Miguel, their friend Vidalina Morales, and the members of La Mesa never gave up. They linked up with international allies ...; Created on 05 April 2021

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