... which extends though the Colon, Olancho and Atlantida departments.
Criminalization as a response to dissent
In October 2018, residents and alternative news outlets reported the deployment of ...
... a collective strategy of resistance against the mining operation due to environmental and water scarcity concerns in the Central American country. Despite a campaign of criminalization and defamation, ...
... organizations and communities that have denounced the abandonment of mines in a state of contamination by unscrupulous mining companies;
Deepen the dialogue and analysis on the current situation of criminalization ...
... and the environment in this dry region of the country. The resistance has faced acts of intimidation, threats and criminalization, as well as an assassination attempt against one member in June 2012. Since ...
... criminalization, a win at the Guatemalan Supreme Court, and now a challenge at the Washington, D.C.–based World Bank Group's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
A timeline may ...
... with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in suits related to gold and silver projects that communities have spent many years fighting, facing criminalization and threats to defend their water, health, ...
... as ‘La Puya’, and have resisted repeated eviction attempts, suffering repression by state and private security forces. Despite an ongoing campaign of criminalization and defamation, and a renewed military ...
... recent weeks, international organizations from five continents have endorsed a public sign-on letter entitled:Stop the Criminalization of Social Protest and Corporate Impunity in Peru!! The initiative ...
... and criminalization for defending human rights and above all the right to say no to projects that threaten our life, environment, biodiversity and cultural diversity.
Particularly, the meeting allowed ...
P. Cabezas
A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned.
The ban approved with ...
... and environmentalists have suffered criminalization by the Salvadoran authorities. Community leaders of Tacuba were found guilty and sentenced to pay fines for a crime they did not commit, explained Karen ...
... our governments are giving in concession large extensions of land to transnational corporations.
The context of violence, stigma and criminalization to which we, women who fight from our territories ...
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"By speaking of a common struggle in Central America, we take a major step, because we see the same patterns of criminalization of social movements and popular struggles; and the dispossession of indigenous ...
... Indigenous, campesinos and women;
-Mining brings criminalization of dissent and protest of environmental and Human rights defenders;
-Mining brings community division and conflict, and environmental ...