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21. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); Wayka Arsenic and mercury were found in the bodies of people in the districts near the Coata river basin, in the Puno region, which is being contaminated by mining tailings. Local leaders claim that ...; Created on 28 December 2020
22. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... developments in 2021 concerning arbitration in the Latin American region, just as we did in 2020. Once the EU-Mexico FTA is in force, it will certainly be interesting to see how such stark deviations from ...; Created on 19 December 2020
23. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... from the Black indigenous Garifuna community have triggered widespread criticism. Guapinol is a semi-rural neighbourhood in the fertile, mineral-rich Bajo Agua region, where for years subsistence farmers ...; Created on 07 October 2020
24. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Regional Charters of Family Values. In 2020, Gawron, Pajak and Preneta were sued by five of those local municipalities, for damaging their reputation and demanding a public apology and economic compensation ...; Created on 29 September 2020
25. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and bloody land-grabbing campaign in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras.” Local activists and farmers told The Guardian that Honduran Special Forces and the 15th Battalion, which receives training and material ...; Created on 25 September 2020
26. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... been present in the region for the 223 years since. In the 1800s we created 46 Garífuna communities, mostly locating ourselves in the country’s northern coastal area, where we maintain our cultural wealth. ...; Created on 03 September 2020
27. 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
28. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the attacks against Yoni Rivas of the Agrarian Platform and the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA), who is based in the Lower Aguán Region is currently unable to leave the area due to the curfew, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
29. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... annual shareholder meeting of London-registered mining giant Anglo American took place behind closed doors on May 5th 2020. The company is the owner of the Quellaveco copper mine in the Moquegua region ...; Created on 22 July 2020
30. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... crime groups have caused the loss of jobs, the execution of multiple crimes against people and their property. Moreover, these actions intend to turn the region into an area controlled by criminals”. With ...; Created on 22 July 2020
31. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Rather, it has been imposed to adapt the productive, commercial and economic objectives of these sectors in a region that has historically struggled to save Lake Izabal from the effects of mining. Indeed, ...; Created on 20 July 2020
32. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... and the judicial system. Solway's corrupt money contributes to the corruption that pervades the repressive and judicial apparatuses of the Izabal and Alta Verapaz region. Given the contempt for the Constitutional ...; Created on 12 June 2020
33. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... rights and become benchmarks for addressing various problems that affect them, civil society must carry out the social struggle. This has led civil society to transcend social movements in the region and ...; Created on 06 June 2020
34. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Regimes in North America If the USCMA is ratified in Canada, the North American region will have not one but three distinct investment protection regimes. a system for the United States and Canada, ...; Created on 03 May 2020
35. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... mere meeting. For Cortes, the current government must take up the issue and lobby the Guatemalan Government for the closure of the mine. In addition, it should promote a regional agreement to avoid ...; Created on 21 April 2020
36. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... There must be an advisory council made up of 14 people from the agro-industry, agricultural cooperatives, industrial sector, tourism, indigenous groups, students, and regional watershed committees. All ...; Created on 20 April 2020
37. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... on them, all these appear to be empty gestures aimed at creating a facade of legitimacy. As in other regions of Honduras, the lives of environmental defenders in Tocoa who publicly oppose the government ...; Created on 20 April 2020
38. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... de la Maraña or Trinidad, come to ask for services, they are put aside. That is discrimination.”, concluded Hernandez. ------------- Translated by: Giada Ferrucci Translated from: http://acafremin.org/es/noticias-regionales/el-salvador/426-el-estado-de-el-salvador-sigue-con-una-cuenta-pendiente-para-defensores-criminalizados-por-empresas-mineras ...; Created on 26 December 2019
39. 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
40. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... of the more than 25 organizations who participated, the governments of the region criminalize environmental defenders who oppose extractive projects and to favor mining and other extractive companies. ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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