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21. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... company and protect the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers from contamination. Through of an amicus curiae brief, CEJIL presented arguments, based on international human rights law standards, to ask that the ...; Created on 20 April 2020
22. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... been leading a local fight against water contamination and social divisions arising from a nearby barite mine operated by Canadian company Blackfire Exploration. He had been facing threats from people ...; Created on 26 December 2019
23. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... Law against mining exploration and exploitation. As a result of this law, some considerations have to be taken into account, especially in the case of the San Sebastián Mine, due to the impact of water contamination ...; Created on 26 December 2019
24. Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... than half a million inhabitants due to the potential cross-border contamination of water sources. A study authored by biologist, Cidia Cortes in collaboration with the National Roundtable against Mining ...; Created on 26 December 2019
25. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... by Pérez, caused excessive deforestation, contamination of water supplies and the disappearance of fish from the rivers due to mining waste that was not properly discarded. According to Dominguez, before ...; Created on 24 October 2019
26. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... organizations and communities that have denounced the abandonment of mines in a state of contamination by unscrupulous mining companies; Deepen the dialogue and analysis on the current situation of criminalization ...; Created on 05 May 2019
27. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); * Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...; Created on 03 May 2019
28. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... Ana mining project, owned by the Canadian company Bear Creek. The mobilization demanded the cancellation of the project due to the risk of contamination of their water sources (including Lake Titicaca, ...; Created on 16 September 2018
29. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... usage and risk of contamination of local water sources. The region is largely an agricultural and livestock area that includes important local rivers such as the Callacami and the Desaguadero River. Lake ...; Created on 28 August 2018
30. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... these projects.” The communities near the mine have organized to challenge the project, which is operated by KCA. The communities fear that the mine will lead to the contamination and destruction of ...; Created on 27 August 2018
31. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... system ANDA. That is to say, the law proposes the creation of a mechanism that allows the legalization of dispossession (exploitation and contamination) currently carried out by some companies (such ...; Created on 25 June 2018
32. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Mr. McKinley says. “But private enterprise is the reason for so much misuse and contamination. It has been the [source] of problems, not the solution.” He says users and regulators should have distinct ...; Created on 08 May 2018
33. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... improve the perilous social conditions of the community: to conduct works to stop the acid drainage and to clean up the contamination left by the company, to immediately begin works to provide access ...; Created on 07 May 2018
34. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 2005, local organizations began to demand a national metal mining prohibition, that all existing exploration licenses were rescinded, and that contamination left by already existing mining projects be ...; Created on 08 February 2018
35. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... This contamination is the outcome of the past mineral extraction. The members of CRIPDES point out that Commerce Group, the company responsible for the acid drainage, "has disappeared". Thus, it is impossible ...; Created on 14 November 2017
36. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... involved in protests against the mine were murdered there in 2012. The mining operation was recently ordered suspended after complaints of water contamination, forcible and illegal demolition of homes, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
37. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Environment and Natural Resources, 90 percent of the country’s rivers and streams suffer from some level of contamination. Mining is water-intensive and comes with a high risk of polluting this key and ...; Created on 26 June 2017
38. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the deterioration of the environment, the deterioration of ecosystems, biodiversity, water contamination… We are talking about nothing less than the life and dignity of the people,” he stated. Another ...; Created on 13 February 2017
39. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a boost Monday as leaders of the Catholic church in the Central American country presented a bill in Congress aimed at blocking mining and protecting citizens from “serious contamination.” “The objective ...; Created on 10 February 2017
40. FMLN Will Vote for the Ban on the Mining Industry in the Country: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... contamination of natural resources like the water, the land, and the air. Further, repeating the words of the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, this subject is not political, it is a ...; Created on 10 February 2017

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