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1. Latin American Women Weaving Territories: (Media Releases); PRESS RELEASE WOMEN OF GUATEMALA, HONDURAS AND EL SALVADOR DENOUNCE THE IMPACTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES The women of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya and the Municipality of Mataquescuintla, ...; Created on 01 February 2018
2. Women in Resistance Against the World Bank: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... is a "perverse instance designed to protect big business and not the rights of communities." The population attending this concentration were mostly women leaders, peasants, workers of the land who from ...; Created on 11 November 2015
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miriam Miranda became who she is today. Since she was a teenager, Miranda participated in student and social movements; a passionate reader that was a member of the Visitación Padilla Women's Movement, ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... women and other important sectors of the population supported a bill presented on February 6, 2017 to ban metallic mining in the country. A survey conducted in 2015 by the Central American University, ...; Created on 14 December 2021
5. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Guatemala. Eleven indigenous women are suing the company Hudbay Minerals (previously Skye Resources), accusing it of complicity in their gang rape, allegedly by security personal at Fenix mine in 2007. ...; Created on 07 May 2021
6. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... which have demonstrated environmental pollution associated with mining activity. Testing of the local population has also shown the excessive presence of toxic metals in the blood of dozens of men, women ...; Created on 22 April 2021
7. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Belarus, is represented by the Coordination Council, initiative of brave women - main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya; Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich; musician and political activist ...; Created on 29 September 2020
8. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... quickly, especially pregnant women. In Carrizalillo, of the 70% of the female workers who were pregnant between 2011 and 2012, 65% of them had abortions which resulted in the death of the baby, others ...; Created on 09 August 2020
9. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... Walk allowed the various environmental, human rights, religious, women, and youth organizations that make up this space, to carry out an evaluation of the state of the country's natural resources. The ...; Created on 06 June 2020
10. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... Twenty community members have faced unjust legal accusations and there was a past attempt on the life of a member of the resistance. Between 2012 and 2014, the community turned out en masse — with women ...; Created on 03 May 2020
11. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ACAFREMIN Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...; Created on 26 December 2019
12. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... unleashed by Pacific Rim Mining in 2009. During this event, dozens of men and women attended to celebrate the legacy of the leaders who led the struggle against mining companies in the country, and paid ...; Created on 26 December 2019
13. Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... of thermal water extracted from the Cerro Blanco project. A press release by the National Roundtable against Mining highlights that the first people to be affected by the mine will be rural women who utilize water ...; Created on 26 December 2019
14. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... women, and children in a local basketball court. Then, in front of them, the gunmen shot community leaders Dionel Campos and Juvello Sinzo—Cullamat’s uncle. “We all saw how they exploded (Campos’) head,” ...; Created on 04 October 2019
15. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); ... to carry a consultation with local indigenous populations of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, before the implementation of the project. Since 2011, women, children and men have engaged in ...; Created on 18 September 2019
16. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... 2014 -- Hundreds of police used tear gas and flash bombs to remove the women who formed the front line of the resistance at the blockade. PBI-Guatemala Project has noted, "PBI observed a disproportionate ...; Created on 03 May 2019
17. ENDORSERS / SIGNATARIOS: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Peoples Development Program(OPDP)(KENIA) OrganizationActions pour le Développement Communautaire (BURUNDI) ASIA ALTSEAN-Burma AMIHAN NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PEASANT WOMEN(Philippines) Campaign ...; Created on 25 February 2019
18. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... particular of how "the aggressions against women [human rights] defenders take on particular characteristics, including sexual references and references to the private lives of the defenders". "Of the ...; Created on 28 August 2018
19. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... This problem affects us all in our daily lives, but it is the poor who suffer the most, especially women and children. Toxic waste and heavy metals from industry, poisonous chemicals from agricultural ...; Created on 27 August 2018
20. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... microfinances, organic agriculture, leadership training, youth programs, and women’s empowerment. An Historic Success Their most public success began in 2006 with their resistance to a Canadian-Australian ...; Created on 24 August 2018

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