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1. Groups demand that Canadian mining company drop suit against El Salvador to start on its independence day
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
For immediate release Toronto – Today, dozens of organizations from Canada, El Salvador and around the world will confront Canadian-Australian mining company Oceana Gold, whose subsidiary is suing El ...
Created on 10 September 2014
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... of the Water Defenders, environmental organizations in El Salvador and their International Allies who have historically opposed metallic mining are calling for international days of action to start on ...
Created on 08 April 2023
3. 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
4. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...
Created on 04 April 2023
5. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... a return to mining. His government has established a new agency to oversee extractive industries and started looking into international agreements that would facilitate investment in precious metals. It ...
Created on 03 April 2023
6. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation
(Cerro Blanco)
... plans, said that he has concerns that the Environmental Impact Study does not present a closure plan, instead, it plans to start the process four years before the mine closes.       Mining operations’ ...
Created on 22 September 2022
7. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...
Created on 29 June 2021
8. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People
(Mining and Human Rights)
... members organized as the Peaceful Resistance La Puya have maintained their protest camp since March 2012. The police arrived several hours before the start of a routine action to lift a seizure order on ...
Created on 07 June 2021
9. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine
(Mining and Human Rights)
... to reach agreements regarding the start of the pre-consultation process. Aleisar Arana, Huxi Hurak of the Xinka People said, “It is a very special day, a day we fought for, a day that will remain in ...
Created on 26 May 2021
10. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site
(La Puya International Support Letter)
... explains: “[On May 21] the immobilization, which had been legally imposed [by the Supreme Court] in 2016, [was] officially lifted. Although, this does not mean that the miner can restart operating activities.” ...
Created on 22 May 2021
11. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business
(Mining and Human Rights)
Breaking the Silence Vancouver-based mining company Pan American Silver held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 12th: the final shareholder meeting for retiring founder and Board Chair Ross Beaty. ...
Created on 17 May 2021
12. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... four years before creating the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE). After a delay of two more years, CORE has finally started taking cases. But it is unable to compel firms to hand ...
Created on 07 May 2021
13. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... to the Office of the President for approval.  “The Company will continue to engage with government officials and will work with stakeholders for a safe restart of operations at Didipio,” OceanaGold ...
Created on 05 May 2021
14. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... and Indigenous people, Morrison said on April 16, because “OceanaGold has been found to have committed serious human rights violations”. OceanaGold started mining in Didipio in 2013, despite opposition ...
Created on 22 April 2021
15. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... in suits” drilling for gold. In the early 2000s, Pacific Rim Mining Corporation—acquired by OceanaGold in 2013—started drilling exploration wells in Cabañas Department, about 40 miles northeast of San ...
Created on 11 April 2021
16. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the lawyer who fought the Pacific Rim Mining Corp. This mining ban was a huge victory for activists. Some of them, though, paid a heavy price. I'd like, Luis, if you can start us off by telling us about ...
Created on 22 March 2021
17. 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
18. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward
(Mining and Human Rights)
... sudden onslaught of these new jurisdictions, Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs), which international promoters refer to as “charter cities,” “startup cities,” or “free private cities.” U.S. ...
Created on 15 February 2021
19. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue
(OceanaGold)
... material. Prior to the start of mining operations four years ago, the company said it would run a state-of-the-art operation that would meet the necessary environmental regulations. "In accordance with ...
Created on 15 February 2021
20. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South
(Mining and Human Rights)
... with the government to address these concerns, but was ignored. Protesters began sit-ins and other actions, and were accused of starting fires and confrontations with police, a charge Aduviri denies. The ...
Created on 21 January 2021
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