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1. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to sell their projects. The struggle took international dimensions when two companies, Commerce Group and Pacific Rim (later acquired by OceanaGold), decided to sue the government of El Salvador at the ...; Created on 29 June 2021
2. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...; Created on 06 May 2021
3. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); CRITERIO Tegucigalpa. - Eight environmental defenders of the Atlantic zone of Honduras have been in prison for 15 months due to their opposition to a mining project which is plagued with irregularities. ...; Created on 28 December 2020
4. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... affected communities, along with water trucks. The government also planned on digging new wells in order to provide water and stop dependence on the Las Pavas Water plant. According to their official website, ...; Created on 11 September 2020
5. Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.: (Territories Free of Mining); ... petition, then a public consultation must be called by the local community council. If the anti-mining forces are able to get over 50 percent of the registered voters to support their motion then the community ...; Created on 08 September 2014
6. Anti-mining leaders asks presidential candidates to make explicit their position on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in Salvador demanded all presidential candidates to publicly state their parties' position on the issue of mining in the country. “Mining is one ...; Created on 21 November 2013
7. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty: (FTAs & ISDS); Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...; Created on 08 June 2012
8. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miranda grew up in a Garifuna family that migrated from their community in Santa Fe, Colón, to live and work in a banana field. In those plantations, she saw how people were treated like slaves: the end ...; Created on 25 December 2021
9. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... a mechanism to recognize their non-profit social function and the exemption from paying taxes. By not incorporating this mechanism, community water systems will be obliged to pay taxes and increase service ...; Created on 23 December 2021
10. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... disregard the anti-mining struggle that the country experienced for more than twelve years and for which at least four environmentalists from Cabañas who offered their lives so that Canadian mining companies ...; Created on 16 December 2021
11. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in their municipalities; 77% believed that the Salvadoran State should definitively ban metallic mining in the country and, despite the critical situation of unemployment in the surveyed communities, 86% ...; Created on 14 December 2021
12. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... members organized as the Peaceful Resistance La Puya have maintained their protest camp since March 2012. The police arrived several hours before the start of a routine action to lift a seizure order on ...; Created on 07 June 2021
13. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... plants, and their habitats. Whatever short-term economic benefits to be had from mining (and studies show these never go to the affected communities), this remains a losing proposition when we consider ...; Created on 02 June 2021
14. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Despite this, the Xinka people have not given up. The vindication of our rights has not been easy because public officials of four previous governments have denied their existence, in order to justify ...; Created on 26 May 2021
15. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the people of Dipidio in Kasibu town were blaming the activities of the foreign miner for the massive flooding around the Cagayan Valley, as well as for the depletion and pollution of their water sources. ...; Created on 24 May 2021
16. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... their camp. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: 1. The company: The mineral exploitation license for Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, EXMINGUA S.A. was suspended through ...; Created on 23 May 2021
17. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... human rights and the environment. The draft model law, if adopted, would require Canadian companies to prevent human rights and environmental harm throughout their global operations and supply chains. ...; Created on 21 May 2021
18. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...; Created on 17 May 2021
19. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Consolidated Mining Corporation has worked closely with the Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. over the past 20 years— and the environmental impact of their operations have been devastating. “Abra ...; Created on 12 May 2021
20. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the company to respect the Indigenous Xinka people’s right to be freely consulted without violence and threats, and to immediately cease interference in their communities. Indigenous leaders such as Secretary-Treasurer ...; Created on 12 May 2021

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