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21. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... November 2017. Colombia's constitutional court suspended operations due to concerns about the impact of diverting a river on the local water supply. Anglo American's latest legal challenge was filed ...; Created on 08 June 2021
22. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Harris is traveling to Guatemala this week to discuss solutions to the poverty, violence, and corruption that are among the driving forces of migration. Contributing to these drivers are neoliberal arrangements, ...; Created on 07 June 2021
23. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Consider the case of two corporations whose mining agreements are being renewed. OceanaGold’s 25 years of operation in Nueva Vizcaya has resulted in the degradation of rivers, loss of livelihood, and ...; Created on 02 June 2021
24. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... walked away too and it has since been labeled a “time bomb”. There have been five emergency declarations due to the high levels of heavy metal contamination in the Moche river from acid mine drainage, ...; Created on 17 May 2021
25. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... River is now dead thanks to Ivanhoe and Lepanto,” he said. He added that tailings from the mine disposed into the river have had a harmful impact on fish, and heavy metals have poisoned agricultural lands. ...; Created on 12 May 2021
26. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... company’s community work as coercive, in violation of the “free” nature of the consultation and the Constitutional Court suspension order, and a main driver of increased tension and violence. In their ...; Created on 12 May 2021
27. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the Amazon’s Xingu River will “prompt the last stages of ecocide” in the region. Mining in Brazil has benefited from far-right president Jair Bolsonaro’s hostility to indigenous rights and the environment. ...; Created on 07 May 2021
28. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environmental impacts of a new iron oxide mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park. So far, at least eight people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
29. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... favor of their opponents. In the course of their struggle, the water defenders face trials of biblical proportions, including the brutal and unsolved murder of their leader Marcelo Rivera, a teacher ...; Created on 23 April 2021
30. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... territories. In this region, where water is the most valuable asset, more than 20 streams have dried up or been diverted. This includes the Bruno Creek, a major tributary of the Ranchería River, on which ...; Created on 22 April 2021
31. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines and Kalikasan found that river waters are now unsafe for agriculture, irrigation and human consumption and this has led to reduced yields from irrigated ...; Created on 22 April 2021
32. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... him, stopping the landfill but not the 70,000 hogs. Brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, Broad and Cavanagh write, were key members of that opposition. They founded the first library and culture center ...; Created on 11 April 2021
33. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world to ban mining to save its precious rivers. Their battle cries: “Water, not gold” and “Water for life.” In the process of their 13-year fight, these water defenders organized a national coalition ...; Created on 05 April 2021
34. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...; Created on 28 March 2021
35. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Saved A Country from Corporate Greed." TRANSCRIPT: Marco Werman: This is a story about gold and water and activism. El Salvador is dangerously close to running out of clean water. Its rivers have ...; Created on 22 March 2021
36. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... they are still dealing with polluted rivers, the destruction of sacred sites and property damage. Many people lack access to safe drinking water,” says Jean Symes of Inter Pares. Mr. Imai is represented ...; Created on 02 March 2021
37. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here. Introduction comes as Honduran President ...; Created on 23 February 2021
38. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... one of the 8 defenders of water and life.” Jeremías is one of the defenders who has been imprisoned for protecting the Guapinol River from being polluted by the Inversiones Los Pinares mine. He has ...; Created on 22 February 2021
39. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Agreement (FTAA) of the government with OceanaGold. The governor said the floods that devastated northern Luzon last December were partly because the watersheds of the Cagayan River in Nueva Vizcaya ...; Created on 21 January 2021
40. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful ...; Created on 14 January 2021

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