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21. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... access to the mine. View of the Camp in Defense of Water and Life View of the Camp in Defence of Water and Life. (ACAFREMIN: Central American Alliance Against Mining) The government response to the protesters ...; Created on 06 May 2021
22. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Colectivo Madre Selva, alongside other Central America organisations, have put out a release, in Spanish, denouncing the open pit mine and you can read this here, Digamos No A La Mina Cerro Blanco. Some ...; Created on 06 May 2021
23. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Salvadorans to oppose mining, including more than 3 out of 5 consulted in a 2007 University of Central America poll. The most shocking ordeal faced by the water defenders was Rivera’s gruesome murder. ...; Created on 23 April 2021
24. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... public about its mine in Didipio in Central Luzon. The Philippine government said it would renew the company’s right to mine in Didipio last December. OceanaGold said that proved it was “a responsible ...; Created on 22 April 2021
25. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... in Semirara Island, central Philippines, March 2005. Image by TJCERAME – Wikimapia via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) While Duterte’s policies on mining have caused instability in the sector, experts ...; Created on 15 April 2021
26. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... conducted by the University of Central America in 2007 and 2015, which revealed overwhelming disapproval for mining. Another factor was La Mesa’s framing of the issue. The water defenders did not see ...; Created on 05 April 2021
27. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... - Héctor Leonel Ayala, Secretary of State for the Offices of Justice, Human Rights, Governance and Decentralization. E-mail: observatorio@sdhjgd.gob.hn - Blanca Izaguirre, National Commissioner of ...; Created on 14 March 2021
28. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Aymarazo movement is just one of many examples of resistance to Canadian mining projects in Peru in recent years. In 2018, thousands of people in the district of Huayllay in central Peru protested for ...; Created on 21 January 2021
29. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... been brought by companies against states primarily in South America and Africa, but also in Central America, North America, Europe, and Asia. We anticipate that the number of claims brought by mining ...; Created on 06 January 2021
30. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Orgánic production promotes chemical-free products for the consumer. Lourdes Molina, senior economist and specialist in ecological economics at the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (Instituto ...; Created on 05 January 2021
31. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... debate between those in favor of maintaining the status quo and those proposing a centralized appointment mechanism. In regard to the appellate mechanism, the same authors note that this novelty has strengths, ...; Created on 19 December 2020
32. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... planned mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park, in the northern part of this Central American nation. The conflict has left a wake of people dead, injured and imprisoned. According to public records ...; Created on 28 November 2020
33. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... can overrule or punish governments that fail to meet the demands of these corporations. Arbitration suits like this are made possible by international investment agreements, such as the Central America-Dominican ...; Created on 21 October 2020
34. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... sidelined by authorities themselves. Another awardee is Alberto “Ka Bobby” Roldan, a community organizer active in in coastal community mangrove protection and rehabilitation activities in Central Luzon, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
35. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Tegucigalpa. Their iron oxide refinery is set to be the biggest in Central America and has been lauded by business associations for reactivating the local economy in the midst of Covid-19. But Mr. Pérez ...; Created on 25 September 2020
36. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Dispute Settlement (ISDS) under the terms of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) with the US. “Riot police attacked peaceful protestors, paving the way for the company’s ...; Created on 24 August 2020
37. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... a regional pattern of political persecution, where the governments of Central America´s CA4 region (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) are utilizing confinement measures, in the context of ...; Created on 20 August 2020
38. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of you, organizations of the National Table against Metallic Mining in El Salvador, so that your fight continues to fuel many other struggles in Central America, in Latin America and in the world, because ...; Created on 15 July 2020
39. Demand to resume discussion of the Water Law in El Salvador: (Regional News); ... the current conditions to face the Covid-19 health crisis in the Central American country. The signatories demand from the Salvadoran State "to guarantee access to this vital resource in an equitable, ...; Created on 03 July 2020
40. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... Disputes (ICSID) over alleged violations of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). This month, the arbitration panel admitted the case for consideration on its merits. ...; Created on 03 May 2020

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