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21. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a licence by the government to operate in the park despite the fact that the area was protected by law. In August 2018, the people of Guapinol began to organise protests to stop the mining company’s ...; Created on 01 September 2020
22. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); ... detention despite the fact that the charges they face - aggravated arson and unjust deprivation of liberty - do not require this measure. She reaffirmed this decision in November 2019 during a closed-door ...; Created on 24 August 2020
23. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... level we are reaching. It is extremely serious. These facts must be investigated and punished," said Mr. Tábora, who referred to selective justice in the case. "The constitution of the Republic says that ...; Created on 18 August 2020
24. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... and present themselves to their workers as social actors and benefactors offering tests to detect the virus." According to the 300 environmental organizations supporting the aforementioned study, the ...; Created on 09 August 2020
25. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... policymakers now have to worry that their policy responses could make them the target of lawsuits. A separate legal system In fact, law firms already seem to be salivating over the potential to profit ...; Created on 23 July 2020
26. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The company published written replies to our questions soon after. Below is our short analysis of the company’s predictable and unsatisfactory responses. On water consumption and hydrological imbalance. One ...; Created on 22 July 2020
27. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... it goes beyond the borders of El Salvador. But something that also gives us satisfaction is to know that sooner or later justice will come and that the truth will be known, as we are seeing today in Spain ...; Created on 15 July 2020
28. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... right to water. Yet, no results have been obtained. "This situation is worrisome. In fact, in 2010 El Salvador and the United Nations (UN) recognized that safeguarding water as a human right is essential ...; Created on 17 June 2020
29. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... arbitration “there are really no hard and fast laws” and “misrepresentations of fact and gross mis-citations of authorities are rampant and, when discovered, usually go unpunished.” It is further worrisome ...; Created on 03 May 2020
30. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of our common goods. In this context, we welcome with satisfaction the decision taken by the current Environment and Climate Change Commission, in January 2020, to reopen the legislative debate on this ...; Created on 20 April 2020
31. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... left aside the most serious fact, which was the shooting." Activists are accused of aggravated arson and unfair deprivation of liberty of an employee of the security company. They deny the allegations. ...; Created on 20 April 2020
32. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... This is supported by the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines. In fact, disclosure went beyond what was required by the 2013 Standard. Albeit incomplete, the Philippines was a model in disclosing environmental ...; Created on 08 March 2020
33. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... banned metal mining in all its forms. But the problem of the San Sebastián mine, which for decades has been exploited by artisanal miners, is still unresolved. In fact, according to the mining prohibition law, ...; Created on 26 December 2019
34. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... and violations of the right to due process, including the fact that one of the defendants has been dead since 2015, all 12 were cleared by a National court in March2019. The Attorney General´s Office, ...; Created on 24 October 2019
35. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... World Bank and Asian Development Bank. It made taxes and royalty payments to the government low, and gave companies de facto ownership over land and mining assets for up to 25 years with the possibility ...; Created on 04 October 2019
36. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project: (FTAs & ISDS); ... it has insisted in the law suit, since Mexico depends imports 83% of its fertilizers; and the phosphorus mine, an essential element for the manufacture of fertilizers, would benefit Mexican farmers. That ...; Created on 24 September 2019
37. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the population not to be fooled by the mining monster, the dissatisfaction of the businessmen generated the disappearance of Rivera on June 18, 2009, his body was later found with multiple signs of torture ...; Created on 18 September 2019
38. Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines: (Background and reports ); ... and the Philippines— have studied OceanaGold’s operations in the Philippines and other countries. Among us, we have visited the Didipio mine on fact-finding missions four times since 2013. We have studied ...; Created on 05 September 2019
39. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and fact-finding mission, we found numerous rights violations were experienced by the residents at the barricade such as red-tagging, surveillance, intrusions in their homes, as well as threats of dispersal ...; Created on 02 September 2019
40. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... a post that existed from 2009 until 2018, failed to hold a single company to account. That’s no surprise given the fact that the office was unable to investigate a company without that company’s permission, ...; Created on 05 May 2019

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