Trocaire
The ‘Guapinol 8’ were detained on 1st September last year for peacefully protesting against the exploitation of their community’s natural resources by private business interests.
Two daughters ...
... Resistance La Puya that has maintained an encampment outside the mine gates for the last eight years.
“KCA, its subsidiary EXMINGUA, and their Canadian predecessors, took advantage of the legal and institutional ...
ConexiHon
Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...
Democracy Now
At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed ...
... declared to be in a position to start operations since last May 17.
Aerial view of a mine in northern Mexico.
Carrizalillo, an example of what happens in the mines Since the opening, the number ...
Leon Dulce
Bulatlat
A complex array of multiple crises slowly brewing for four years breached the tipping point and inundated the Philippines in just the last four and a half months. This is the story ...
... scrambled to lessen the pain of a deep economic crisis on average citizens, the last thing they needed was a barrage of corporate lawsuits. But that’s what they got.
CMS Gas, for example, sued Argentina ...
... the state of siege that the president Giammattei decreed and also called for the execution of pending eviction orders. Last year, when Jimmy Morales restricted rights in the North-East region of the country, ...
... unifying force. We have also learned how relationships based on trust and love for the future of our planet are the backbone of the most effective and lasting alliances, such as the one we continue to ...
... the Legislative Commission for the Environment and Climate Change has not met in more than 100 days of crisis to resume the discussion of the General Water Law, postponed since last January. The social ...