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1. MUA joins fresh OceanaGold protests: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Andrew Duffy First published in: http://www.miningnews.net/storyview.asp?storyid=824242341# The Maritime Union of Australia is joining a global day of action today, opposing OceanaGold’s continued ...; Created on 11 September 2014
2. 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
3. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...; Created on 22 April 2021
4. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... for the protests, until he was jailed in 2019, a year after being elected governor of Puno. Aduviri, a supporter of Bolivian President Evo Morales, was released from prison this past December through ...; Created on 21 January 2021
5. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... Peru. The other 12 cases were brought inter aliaover a dispute relating to the operation of a refinery located in the Peruvian rainforest, over a mining project halted by local protests and over the state' ...; Created on 21 January 2021
6. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... and international sanctions. Environmental protests and measures: There is an increasing electoral demand for governments to take strong and decisive action on environmental grounds. Such measures, particularly ...; Created on 06 January 2021
7. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... construction began even as communities filed legal complaints, held protests and pleaded with officials to protect the rivers, records show. The Guapinol anti-mining protest camp. Photograph: Courtesy ...; Created on 07 October 2020
8. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a recount of the votes had to flee to Lithuania in fear of imprisonment. In response to the allegations of electoral fraud, large peaceful protests have erupted across the country and were pushed back ...; Created on 29 September 2020
9. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... told Global Voices via text: “Water is a rusty subject similar to the pipes that occasionally serve it. The water problem is so deep that despite the street protests that took place in the past, there ...; Created on 11 September 2020
10. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... the banners declaring, “If they were taken alive, we want them back alive.” In the weeks since there have also been demonstrations in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, as well as protests abroad in the United ...; Created on 03 September 2020
11. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a licence by the government to operate in the park despite the fact that the area was protected by law. In August 2018, the people of Guapinol began to organise protests to stop the mining company’s ...; Created on 01 September 2020
12. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... governments pressured by the lobby of the mining industry seek to silence the protests and use the current crisis to promote changes in national regulations that favor mining activities, at the cost of ...; Created on 09 August 2020
13. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... IMF loans, also tied with austerity measures that prompted huge protests, would be used to pay transnational corporations such as Chevron. The U.S. oil company was awarded $77 million in one investor-state ...; Created on 23 July 2020
14. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... state repression towards social protests. In Peru, states of emergency also continue to be decreed along with militarization of the mining corridor in the Southern Andes where Moquegua, the site of the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
15. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... has faced protests by a group of dismissed people. This type of demonstrations, for example, will now be prohibited. Blocks organized from said protests prevented the Guatemalan Nickel Company from entering ...; Created on 22 July 2020
16. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); ... protests and promote the mining sector Mining companies are using the pandemic as an opportunity to hide their dirty track records and present themselves as public-minded saviours Mining companies ...; Created on 19 July 2020
17. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... the complaint through a judicial process and, especially the imposition of preventive detention, were given with the purpose of undermining the peaceful protests carried out by the defenders, "thus seeking ...; Created on 20 April 2020
18. Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts: (Regional News); ... the government repeatedly signed off on the project despite protests from the Xinka indigenous community. Over the next several years, Environmental Justice Atlas said, protestors were hurt, jailed and ...; Created on 02 March 2020
19. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... and criminalization against environmental defenders. In Honduras, repression has intensified this year through protests against the privatization reforms of health and education and the increase of violence ...; Created on 26 December 2019
20. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to allow their operations and declare unlawful the provincial government’s stoppage order. Barricade Because of these legal debacles and local protests, OceanaGold declared full suspension of its ...; Created on 02 September 2019

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