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1. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ResistEscobal Indigenous Xinka authorities and the Ministry of Energy and Mines establish initial agreements regarding the pre-consultation process The first pre-consultation meeting concerning ...; Created on 26 May 2021
2. 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
3. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); April 4th, 2018 A year since El Salvador's legislature unanimously approved a law prohibiting all metal mining activities in the country, Salvadoran organizations including the National Roundtable ...; Created on 06 May 2018
4. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... brakes on a modern day ‘gold rush’,” MiningWatch Canada wrote in a statement Thursday. The Central American nation is the first country in the world to ban mining for gold and other metals, according to ...; Created on 16 April 2017
5. Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador: (Territories Free of Mining); ... a sleepy town nestled among the hills of the department of Chalatenango, as it voted to protect its natural resources against the effects of the metal mining industry and to become the first territory ...; Created on 24 September 2014
6. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the five men helped lead a campaign to ban metals mining in 2017 and protect El Salvador’s primary source of clean water, the Lempa River Basin. The countrywide ban was the first of its kind anywhere in ...; Created on 20 December 2023
7. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... victory, back in 2017, when El Salvador’s government announced it would be the first country in the world to issue a total ban on metal mining. For a half-century, the industry had been dumping waste and ...; Created on 03 April 2023
8. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that culminated in El Salvador's legislature voting unanimously in 2017 to make that country the first in the world to ban all metals mining to save its rivers," IPS senior adviser John Cavanagh told Common ...; Created on 20 January 2023
9. 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); ... of the Region, which recognize pre-constituted rights to private and foreign companies. We demand that before guaranteeing rights to foreign corporations, the governments first guarantee the inalienable ...; Created on 12 June 2022
10. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... crises. First of all, we have migrant caravans. Honduras is also the most violent and insecure country for human rights defenders; it became a narco-government, where the president´s brother has been tried ...; Created on 25 December 2021
11. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... be supplied to populations. The first two meet the basic family needs for food, personal hygiene, cleaning, including raising domestic animals that do not constitute a commercial or lucrative activity; ...; Created on 23 December 2021
12. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... This historic victory of a country known primarily for its worrisome levels of social violence, overpopulation, migration and environmental deterioration, rendered El Salvador the first nation in the world ...; Created on 14 December 2021
13. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of the votes against Fujimori's 49.8%. These results represent a change of course compared to the first hours after the elections when Fujimori had a slight advantage. However, as the day progresses, and ...; Created on 08 June 2021
14. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... against the government could not be further from the truth. In fact, the Company would not have been able to operate its open-pit gold mine in the region in the first place if not for disproportionate ...; Created on 07 June 2021
15. 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
16. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... integrity of a court-ordered consultation process and put their security at risk. Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine has been suspended since June 2017, first as a result of direct community action and ...; Created on 12 May 2021
17. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mine in Guatemala. The suit was brought by York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), Shin Imai, who first sought the information through access-to-information ...; Created on 11 May 2021
18. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... objectivity and independence, and under all the criteria studied, it found that the detention of the eight environmental defenders is arbitrary for three reasons: 1. First, because there is no legal ...; Created on 11 May 2021
19. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The women first brought the suit to the Superior Court of Ontario in 2011. The Intercept recently published a damning article drawing on internal corporate documents that were released because of this ...; Created on 07 May 2021
20. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... in Tocoa. The Institute for Policy Studies, Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank, awarded the community committee with the international Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award. In 2020, ...; Created on 06 May 2021

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