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21. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... hasn't been given the go-ahead. In a statement it said it won’t proceed with any “physical works” or apply for permits in WKP until “comprehensive consultation and engagement” with locals, Indigenous ...; Created on 17 December 2020
22. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... operations. This, however, cannot be true given that the community continues to keep watch over the mine gates to prevent such a restart, limiting access during the shutdown to personnel responsible for ...; Created on 28 November 2020
23. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... given to late Regina Paz “Gina” Lopez, former Environment and Natural Resources Secretary and a staunch anti-mining advocate. During her short yet “fearless” stint as environment secretary, Lopez closed ...; Created on 07 October 2020
24. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the car was stolen the previous day and that it contained bags of food meant to be distributed by the government. Given the situation in the area, community members “fear that the police will try to ...; Created on 31 July 2020
25. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... communities have organized to put up their own checkpoints to control who can enter, given their lack of trust in the government’s ability to contain the pandemic. These include communities resisting mining ...; Created on 23 July 2020
26. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... it a non-renewable resource, which is overexploited beyond its capacity for natural recharge and regeneration. Given this reality, it is necessary to ask ourselves: what will be the long-term impact of ...; Created on 22 July 2020
27. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... and the judicial system. Solway's corrupt money contributes to the corruption that pervades the repressive and judicial apparatuses of the Izabal and Alta Verapaz region. Given the contempt for the Constitutional ...; Created on 12 June 2020
28. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... within the national territory. With the slogan "For the planet, water and territory", the XX Ecological Walk was carried out online given the current health and climate situation. The online Ecological ...; Created on 06 June 2020
29. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... dropped ISDS from their mandate for negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement, while there have been strong indications that a new Transatlantic Trade Treaty (TTIP) would not require ISDS given the “highly ...; Created on 03 May 2020
30. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... for bringing arbitration within the treaty are highly restrictive. According to this treaty, arbitration disputes should be limited only to disputes over the value of expropriation of a given project. ...; Created on 03 May 2020
31. 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
32. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... rights defenders and journalists who have spoken out against the mining projects in Tocoa; Given the irregularities incurred in the issuance of ASP and ASP 2 mining licences, the Honduras Institute of ...; Created on 20 April 2020
33. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... part of the Catholic Dioceses of San Cristóbal de las Casas. MODEVITE has been fighting to stave off construction of a mega-highway to stimulate tourism from San Cristóbal to Palenque, given that it ...; Created on 26 December 2019
34. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... these aggressions came from, but in later news, we met the famous -slaughterer- (Rodrigo Chávez Palacios) who was vice-president of Pacific Rim at the time of the murders. Given what we know now, I would ...; Created on 26 December 2019
35. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... eight times higher than under Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This is not surprising, given Duterte’s ongoing brutal drug war that has resulted in the deaths of about 27,000 Filipinos through alleged extrajudicial ...; Created on 04 October 2019
36. Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines: (Background and reports ); ... Given its track record, OceanaGold should also be considered ineligible for the additional exploration permits it has requested for areas around the Didipio mine. The study found: a number of instances ...; Created on 05 September 2019
37. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... a post that existed from 2009 until 2018, failed to hold a single company to account. That’s no surprise given the fact that the office was unable to investigate a company without that company’s permission, ...; Created on 05 May 2019
38. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... scheme. However, given the highly secretive nature of ISDS in general and TPF specifically, the extent of third-party funding among Canadian investors is likely much greater than the handful of cases we ...; Created on 05 May 2019
39. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... said in Guatemala, said Julio González, activist of the local Madre Selva Environmental Collective. "The Guatemalan press has given very little follow-up to such a vital issue for a lot of people in the ...; Created on 03 May 2019
40. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018

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