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21. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); CRITERIO Tegucigalpa. - Eight environmental defenders of the Atlantic zone of Honduras have been in prison for 15 months due to their opposition to a mining project which is plagued with irregularities. ...; Created on 28 December 2020
22. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to justify this prolonged detention. Berta Cáceres, assassinated in March 2016, was a courageous ecologist and prominent land rights activist from the indigenous Lenka community in Honduras. She was ...; Created on 29 September 2020
23. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community. “He’s ...; Created on 25 September 2020
24. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Honduras. The sign in the background says "Guapinol is resisting". Photo: Giulia Vuillermoz Early in 2018, the crystalline Guapinol River that runs through Carlos Escaleras Mejia National Park, in northern ...; Created on 01 September 2020
25. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... cases refused to suspend the proceedings. Water Colombia, Honduras, Paraguay and Argentina have adopted measures that provide direct support to water service users, such as making it unlawful to cut ...; Created on 01 September 2020
26. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); The Court of Appeals ruling confirms Honduras as the most dangerous country for environmental defenders in the world. On August 15, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Public and Common Goods ...; Created on 20 August 2020
27. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... Honduras who have been criminalized by the Inversiones Los Pinares mining company and the Attorney General’s Office were notified that their appeals to dismiss the case were unsuccessful. The resolution, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
28. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed ...; Created on 17 August 2020
29. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... such as Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Honduras. More precisely, in Honduras, eight people who oppose an opencast iron ore mine in the municipality of Tocoa have been in prison since September 2019 on ...; Created on 09 August 2020
30. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... continue to make power grabs. In Honduras, the dictatorial government of President Juan Orlando Hernández, which has been widely discredited by corruption and links to drug trafficking, has imposed a ...; Created on 23 July 2020
31. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... illegally in the country, and policies to deal with the threat of contamination from mining projects located in the borders of Honduras and Guatemala”. Environmentalists are also concerned about the ...; Created on 15 July 2020
32. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... Penal Center, in the department of Yoro, Honduras, and another environmental defender who is in a prison in La Ceiba, in the department of Atlántida. For the Honduran authorities, the eight activists ...; Created on 20 April 2020
33. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... the precautionary measure of preventive detention ordered against the 7 water defenders of Guapinol to guarantee their rights according to the international obligations of the Honduran State. In Honduras, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
34. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... Honduras - found that the Honduras government is responsible for the systematic violation of the human rights of communities in Tocoa, department of Colon. These communities are affected by the impacts ...; Created on 20 April 2020
35. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua), participated in the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining – ACAFREMIN. The theme addressed during the meeting has ...; Created on 26 December 2019
36. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... led by the municipal corporation of Tocoa, headed by the mayor Adam Funez; the coordinator of LIBRE and former president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, and Members of the Legislative Assembly belonging ...; Created on 26 December 2019
37. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... also ask that the Government, through its Foreign Ministry, should negotiate and approve a regional agreement on the issue of "shared watersheds" with Guatemala and Honduras, in order to prevent cross-border ...; Created on 26 December 2019
38. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... During the gathering, on Nov. 13-13, environmental defenders shared their experiences in the fight against metal mining in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. According to the representatives ...; Created on 26 December 2019
39. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... known group of environmental activists from Tocoa, a remote city in the northern Atlantic coast of Honduras, were awarded the prestigious Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award in a packed ceremony held in ...; Created on 24 October 2019
40. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... an issue, there more than 40 mining concessions in the borders with Honduras and Guatemala and no step has been taken to dialogue with other countries to make a cross border water treaty to ensure the ...; Created on 18 September 2019

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