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21. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender
(Regional News)
... repression, the research team found a strong and firm community in their opposition to the mine, determined to defend the water sources of the Guapinol river. The river is their way of life and their families, ...
Created on 20 April 2020
22. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington
(Regional News)
... 2010 have fiercely defended their main water source, the Guapinol River, from being contaminated by an Iron Oxide mine, owned by one of the most powerful families of Honduras. Reynaldo Dominguez a leader ...
Created on 24 October 2019
23. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... similar allegations. In response to the human rights council, Mick Wilkes, the president and CEO of OceanaGold, wrote, “We are not aware of any forced evictions of 180 families from their homes in connection ...
Created on 04 October 2019
24. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects
(Regional News)
... associated with water pollution. Around 96 families in the village of La Cuchilla, on a hill next to the site, had to be evicted because of damage to the walls of the houses, due to the vibrations produced ...
Created on 09 May 2018
25. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... histap. “Water comes twice or three times a week,” he says. “When I change my filter every few months, it is full of dark, slimy mud.” Like many other families, he relies heavily on commercial bottled ...
Created on 08 May 2018
26. Duterte's new warning to mining companie
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... stage. Displacement, human rights violations In addition to the failures of reforestation, we found widespread displacement of families around the mine site in Nueva Vizcaya, and human rights violations ...
Created on 08 May 2018
27. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... left without maintenance and many families who were allowed to build their houses in the company´s property were left without title to the land where they have lived for decades now.   When the company ...
Created on 07 May 2018
28. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to the international level- But we have pending challenges from of the mining prohibition in terms of compensation for the victims of violations of human rights and justice for the families of those environmental ...
Created on 01 February 2018
29. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.
(Commerce Group)
... and families have to pay over 28% of their monthly income to access clean water delivered in barrels from a nearby community. “As we have said before, the river is contaminated, there is no access to ...
Created on 13 February 2017
30. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... members of the Mesa. This community of 3,500 families, located in the mountains of the department of Cabañas, has been at the forefront in the fight against the metal extractive industry since 2004. The ...
Created on 05 January 2017
31. All Endorsers
(Open Letter OceanaGold)
...  Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas, KATRIBU, Phillippines Indonesia for Global Justice Migrante Sectoral Party of OFWs and their Families Mines Minerals RIGHTS, India National Association ...
Created on 28 December 2016
32. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... free “gifts” to the community, such as free doctor’s visits. Afterwards it forces families to pose for photographs with the foundation’s workers. But organizations like ADES do a good job in awareness ...
Created on 03 February 2016
33. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... and activists in environmental, faith, youth, and human rights groups continue to risk their lives to defend their families against the ecological ills of gold mining. Here in the U.S., we should do our ...
Created on 02 February 2016
34. Arcatao Community Consultation
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Visit La Maraña, meet with community leaders impacted by the El Dorado mining project and the Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold lawsuit 5:30pm – Arrive in Arcatao, Chalatenango, stay with host families Saturday, ...
Created on 30 September 2015
35. Xenia Marroquìn: “Water is not a merchandise, it is a human right”
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... management of water, those trading water will be the only beneficiaries. How is it possible that 30,000 families located next to the San Antonio power plant are threatened by power shortages, while the ...
Created on 30 September 2015
36. Communities Oppose Mining Project
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... expansion of hospital wards belonging to the communities. “Now they are trying to present Fundacion El Dorado as if we all think their objective is to do charity work” Pineda states. For the families ...
Created on 30 September 2015
37. ADES demands further investigation into the murder of Marcelo Rivera
(Mining and Human Rights)
Six years after the assassination of Marcelo Rivera, family members and environmental leaders of Cabañas continue to demand justice.    “We are outraged that after six years, families of people who worked ...
Created on 12 July 2015
38. Murdered environmental activists remembered
(Mining and Human Rights)
... the lack of protective measures and comprehensive reparations for the families affected of environmental defenders in the area” read the statement.  Who ensures that the rights of those who are negatively ...
Created on 30 December 2014
39. CALL FOR SUPPORT: International month of action against Canadian/Australian miner OceanaGold
(International Month of Action)
... the lives of their families. The state of insecurity generated in Cabañas prompted the Inter American Commission on Human Right-IACHR to issue 2009 precautionary measures ordering the Government of ...
Created on 04 September 2014
40. Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... June 2011, five anti mining activists had been assassinated and tens of others environmental defenders live, up until now, under continuous death threats against their lives and their families'. The ...
Created on 25 June 2014
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