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1. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); by: P. Cabezas As the February 2nd presidential elections in El Salvador quickly approach, environmental activists are stepping up pressure on candidates to address issues relating to the country`s precarious ...; Created on 20 January 2014
2. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... legitimacy of the charges. A group of 17 U.S. members of Congress is the latest to call for their release and a closer look at the steps the government is taking to renew a defunct mining sector. The ...; Created on 20 December 2023
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... northern region, the Salvadoran government is taking no steps to rectify the atrocities of the civil war era, the vast majority of which were committed against the rural poor by a right-wing military with ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a page. President Nayib Bukele, a populist who’s made investment and infrastructure the centerpiece of his agenda, has taken a number of steps that, at least on the surface, look like preparations for ...; Created on 03 April 2023
5. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... made to conduct environmental remediation to 15 abandoned mines classified as “environmental passives”, and no steps have been taken to protect local watersheds from cross border mining projects. The ...; Created on 29 June 2021
6. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... points out, the Canadian government is heavily invested in the mining sector, which explains its lack of meaningful action on this issue. It bears a striking resemblance to the Stephen Harper government’s ...; Created on 12 May 2021
7. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violent confrontations. Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, faced frequent criticism for his unapologetic promotion of Canadian mining interests. His successor, Justin Trudeau, ...; Created on 07 May 2021
8. 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
9. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... stepped in to fill nickel demand from China, exporting 333,962 tonnes last year. Even amid strict government-imposed lockdowns that banned travel by land, air or sea, the mining industry was allowed ...; Created on 15 April 2021
10. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has taken significant steps in recent months to shield senior officials from accountability, including shutting down the Organization of American States-backed Mission of Support against Corruption and ...; Created on 23 February 2021
11. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and there’s a pressing need to reign in these abuses abroad. We’re starting to make steps in that direction. In 2017, a British Columbia appeals court ruled that Tahoe Resources could be sued in a Canadian ...; Created on 21 January 2021
12. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for our dire times.” —Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden “In these riveting pages, you will enter the lives of Vidalina and Miguel and follow the extraordinary steps they take over thirteen ...; Created on 14 January 2021
13. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... be able to bring a claim in case of adverse governmental conduct, including by the local courts. Advice should also be obtained if and when a dispute arises in order to take all appropriate steps early ...; Created on 06 January 2021
14. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... 15-million-year-old relatives. The species is deaf and blind, so there are concerns it won’t be able to sidestep mining operations as Oceanagold’s work ramps up. The company offered to help relocate ...; Created on 17 December 2020
15. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... is announced by the Parliament President and the political group leaders 16 December: Sakharov Prize award ceremony in Strasbourg Next steps Based on the official nominations, the foreign affairs and ...; Created on 29 September 2020
16. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... why they kidnapped Alberth Snider Centeno, to make the community walk back or make us step back. We are not doing that, because it’s enough. It’s too much people dying, too much people in danger. And our ...; Created on 17 August 2020
17. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... susceptible to emerging zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 as our health erodes alongside the planet’s. But instead of stepping up to the plate, the Duterte administration has abandoned all pretenses of ...; Created on 25 July 2020
18. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... remedies. While the elimination of ISDS between the United States and Canada is clearly positive for those countries, the USMCA’s fragmented investment provisions otherwise represent a step backwards, ...; Created on 03 May 2020
19. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... watershed management approach are key. We ask for your serious consideration and prompt approval as the first step in the fight to remedy the current water crisis, to protect our environment, guarantee ...; Created on 20 April 2020
20. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and social data. The next logical step would have been more systematic disclosure of latest disaggregated data to allow monitoring and independent analysis by communities and the public. Another logical ...; Created on 08 March 2020

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