... activist upon hearing, in an initially tense meeting with the water defenders, that cyanide was being used to extract gold dust from the mountains.
“Unbeknown to the water defenders,” Broad and Cavanagh ...
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Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
From West Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, tens of millions of people struggled through late winter storms that froze pipes, broke water mains, and cut off electricity. ...
... own extensive sampling record and said it was not involved in the contamination.
Yesterday a company spokeswoman again said the water supply contamination was not associated with the Macraes mine or ...
... of Honduran sovereignty or were simply a new form of democratic local government. The constitutional charter of Honduras’ first ZEDE, Próspera, along with its extensive code of rules, was made public at ...
... superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated neglect and discrimination to their access to health and basic services has been a grave threat ...
... safety and security measures. Equinox Gold’s misrepresentation of the situation has only provoked further mistrust. It also heightens the potential for confrontation as the company, jumping the gun, begins ...
... its operation in Nueva Vizcaya but it still has pending application to renew its financial and technical assistance agreement (FTAA).
Due to extensive excavations and harmful wastes by the mining company, ...
... protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, ...
... Investments, the company behind the mine, went so far as to accuse them of murder in an attempt to discourage support of the water protectors.
Since the August court ruling, smear campaigns have intensified, ...
... no news of their whereabouts, and a tense atmosphere has taken over Triunfo de la Cruz. Several Garífuna communities across Honduras have protested, demanding the return of the same safe and sound under ...
... the inhabitants of the surrounding communities, Carrizalillo, Xochipala, and Mezcala fear that the violence they are experiencing will intensify, as well as the damage to the health of its inhabitants. ...
... is intensifying the human rights crises in Honduras and Colombia," said EarthRights executive director Ka Hsaw Wa. "These governments are wisely protecting the public with measures of social isolation. ...
... susceptible to emerging zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 as our health erodes alongside the planet’s.
But instead of stepping up to the plate, the Duterte administration has abandoned all pretenses of ...
... and Developers Association of Canada and draws tens of thousands of people from around the world. This year, the event went ahead despite criticisms only a week before the World Health Organization characterized ...
... based on the standards of Convention 169 is carried out. ILO. In addition, the Constitutional Court pointed out irregularities in the extension of the license, since the Environmental Impact Study presented ...
... against the fishermen and journalists who have covered the case intensified and turned into criminal complaint actions, based on falsehoods and deceits against the defenders of life and water. Dozens of ...
... against a gold mining project that threatens to pollute or dry up already scarce water supplies in an area just north of Guatemala City.
Day after day, since March 2012, community members have rotated ...
* Deutsche Welle
COVID-19 threatens the entire population globally, but puts the most vulnerable at greater risk, including prisoners in prisons, who, many times, cannot keep their distance due to the ...
... established in the 1990s, by intensifying investment in extractive industries by national elites and transnational corporations. These industries have established their operations without adequate consultation ...
... to the mine before Pan American Silver owned it nor the continuing tensions, according to Environmental Justice Atlas.
“What a wonderful outlook for the years to come!” Beaty said in his introduction ...