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1. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
2. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... has generated violence and conflict, causing at least seven deaths to date and the prosecution of 32 community leaders. The denial for environmentalists to wait for their trial in freedom contrasts with ...; Created on 28 December 2020
3. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... also handed themselves in a few months later, but paradoxically, the judge issued a pre-trial detention order. No evidence of the alleged crimes having taken place was presented, not to mention evidence ...; Created on 01 September 2020
4. Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Foundation for the Application of the Law in El Salvador-FESPAD. Since 2005, La Mesa has conducted a successful campaign to stop the development of industrial mining operations in El Salvador. Their ...; Created on 25 June 2014
5. PRESS RELEASE:ICSID rejects request by Commerce Group to extend trial against El Salvador due to failure to pay: (Media Releases); Given its failure to pay its fees to ICSID, the tribunal rejected the extension request by the mining company Commerce Group in the trial against El Salvador On August 9th the International Centre for ...; Created on 12 August 2012
6. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... multinational mining companies. Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...; Created on 08 April 2023
7. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... dozens of cases that have been started by survivors of military massacres that have not gone to trial. Three specific cases are those of the Lempa massacre (forty-three killed, 189 disappeared), the Los ...; Created on 06 April 2023
8. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of ADES) The water defenders started speaking out against industrial mining around 2005, when the rising price of gold attracted increased interest in the untapped deposits across northern El Salvador. ...; Created on 03 April 2023
9. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... defenders and otherwise release them from prison to await their trial" came a day after a Salvadoran judge ruled that the case should proceed and the leaders of the Association of Economic and Social Development ...; Created on 20 January 2023
10. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... under normal legal processes and not under the provisions of the current “state of emergency” and that the detainees be released to wait for their trial in the community. We also demand that the government ...; Created on 13 January 2023
11. 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); ... can be described as one of the most aggressive industrial activities, environmentally, socially and culturally, because it generates great impacts on the natural and cultural landscape, pollutes the air, ...; Created on 12 June 2022
12. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Feminist Camp "Viva Berta" for three and a half months (in the trial against David Castillo, who was identified as a co-author of the murder of Berta Cáceres), in front of the Supreme Court of Justice. ...; Created on 25 December 2021
13. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... population and the supply for industrial use, risking that supply systems prioritize the latter. The law does not solve the injustice generated by the agreements signed between ANDA and construction ...; Created on 23 December 2021
14. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Marsh, one of the largest wetlands in the country, and further downstream to Davao Gulf and Sarangani Bay, affecting numerous terrestrial and marine species. ADVERTISING Of course, humans and their ...; Created on 02 June 2021
15. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... national industrialization plan and a more robust environmental safety policy regime is in place to rationalize the management of our mineral resources,” Kalikasan PNE said. Mining moratorium lifted ...; Created on 27 May 2021
16. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... severely wounded. He is a national spokesperson for the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance. Claver knows first-hand the dangers facing land defenders in the Philippines who resist mining and other industrial ...; Created on 12 May 2021
17. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Panel found that "there is no basis to justify the trial". In addition to the fact that there is no justification for advancing the trial, the defenders have been prosecuted by a court that "has not responded ...; Created on 11 May 2021
18. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... favor of their opponents. In the course of their struggle, the water defenders face trials of biblical proportions, including the brutal and unsolved murder of their leader Marcelo Rivera, a teacher ...; Created on 23 April 2021
19. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... sand and copper minerals here in the Philippines,” anti-mining coalition Alyansa Tigil Mina said. “All these will only benefit Chinese demands and not Philippine industrialization.” In Palawan province, ...; Created on 15 April 2021
20. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the region, and thus no opposition to mining. A local mayor from the right-wing ARENA party promoted landfills and industrial hog farms as “development” projects. Local opposition organized against ...; Created on 11 April 2021

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