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21. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... by Lenir Perez, a powerful businessman previously linked to the execution of construction contracts illegally granted by the government of Juan Orlando Hernandez. Perez has also been accused of environmental ...; Created on 24 October 2019
22. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... with local insurgency threats. Over the years, they have been accused of various human rights abuses and at one point were even disbanded, only to be revived again. In 2018, Duterte granted them financial ...; Created on 04 October 2019
23. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project: (FTAs & ISDS); ... without the authorization of SEMARNAT. He was accused of "conspiring against the economic development of Mexico," and began what the organization Article 19 pointed out as one. In December 2015, Odyssey ...; Created on 24 September 2019
24. Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala: (Media Releases); ... resistance ‘La Puya’ as anti-development and accused local communities of being responsible for the costly suit. "KCA's suit is an example of present-day corporate colonialism. Through violence along with ...; Created on 04 May 2019
25. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... use of force by the police during that eviction." May 2014 -- Nine leaders of the resistance are accused of making threats and assaulting employees at the mine. They were cleared of those charges in ...; Created on 03 May 2019
26. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... Santa Ana mining project had been blocked. Shut up in Court After the Aymarazo, the public prosecutor opened investigations against 100 leaders involved in the mobilizations. They were accused of the ...; Created on 28 August 2018
27. The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... were arrested and accused of terrorism for protesting against a national policy for the decentralization of water the services. This policy represented an escalation of an aggressive neoliberal economic ...; Created on 02 July 2018
28. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Sorto and her unborn child, and Francisco Duran. After convicting paid gang members who were accused of committing the murders, a full investigation into the intellectual authors of these murders ...; Created on 08 February 2018
29. El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... have caused great moral and economic damage to El Salvador. The country was put onto the “bench of the accused” for many years. The Pacific Rim company is also responsible for the violence generated in ...; Created on 20 October 2016
30. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... local gang-members to carry out the murder, claiming she was motivated by alleged disputes between Soto and her daughter. The accused claimed to have been forced into making confessions through subjection ...; Created on 13 February 2014
31. El Salvador suffers Australia's maleficent miner: (Water no Gold); ... by it often lead to civil strife, which mining companies have been accused of instigating or encouraging. In Australia the environmental impacts, health, welfare and aspirations of people in areas affected ...; Created on 03 December 2013
32. International delegation confronts mining in El Salvador: (2013 Fact Finding Mission); ... is accused of utilizing kidnapping, intimidation and even murder against community members opposed to the mining project. This was highlighted internationally in 2009 with the murder of Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro ...; Created on 08 July 2013
33. Pacific Rim President's Claim that He Wants to Help El Salvador Leaves Many Unconvinced ...: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of his proposed mine. Anti-mining groups have accused his company of involvement in the killings of local activists, charges he vehemently denies and for which he says there is no evidence. And the government ...; Created on 03 July 2012
34. “It wasn’t the Attorney General’s Office that harassed me, it was the DECO: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... murdered in 2009 in Cabañas, explained that when he gave testimony against those accused for the crime, he was harassed by the investigators from the DECO (the Elite Division against Organized Crime) and ...; Created on 10 May 2012
35. Cabañas 2012 Sign On Letter: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... the cases should be given to prosecutors that have not been accused of due process violations or of manipulating investigations for political reasons, as is the case with the head of the Organized Crime ...; Created on 24 April 2012
36. 10 Prosecuted for murders of environmentalists: (Background and reports ); ... April 11, 2012 Translation by SHARE staff Original Article in Spanish On April 10th, the Court of Specialized Sentencing of San Salvador began the trial against 10 people accused of involvement in ...; Created on 19 April 2012
37. Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists: (Mining and Human Rights); ... April 17, 2012 Translation by Jan Morrill Original Spanish Version The legal process that lead to the sentencing of six people accused of the murders of five environmentalists in the town of Trinidad, ...; Created on 18 April 2012
38. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... offences and the community’s grassroots group falsely accused of ties to organized crime. The community has been militarized, and its leaders subjected to threats, harassment and smear campaigns. Several ...; Created on 07 October 2020
39. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... men in jail, along with the other five who originally had their case dismissed, now face detention and arson charges. Under Honduran law, these charges do not require the detention of the accused, but ...; Created on 25 September 2020
40. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Amy Goodman. We turn now to Honduras, where preliminary hearings are set to begin today for one of the men accused of murdering the indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead ...; Created on 17 August 2020

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