Communities from Across the Hemisphere Speak out Against Pacific Rim
On October 20th, thousands of people marched in Cabañas, El Salvador to voice their opposition to the proposed gold mining project ...
Solidarity from 3,000 Miles Away
Last winter, when environmental activists and members of the community of San Sebastian heard about the struggles in Wisconsin to defeat legislation that would pave the ...
Save the Mining Moratorium Law
The state of Wisconsin’s mining legislation is some of the strongest in the country and the world. Their “prove it first” law requires mining companies to show ...
Urgent Communique from the Municipal Commission Specific to the Consultation on Mining
The members of the Commission recognized and designated by the Municipality of Asuncion Mita, Jutiapa to organize ...
... local organizations to exercise their right to call a local referendum as outlined by article 64 of the municipal code.
According to the Municipal Code, any community can request a referendum from ...
... Church, civil society organizations, and representatives of the mining company Elevar Resources, who resigned from their positions shortly after the establishment of the commission. However, the observation ...
... Border Association is a Legal entity, located in the Trifinio (Tri-national) Region that is comprised by 26 municipalities from countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and it is committed to ...
... the rights of the Garífuna people, OFRANEH received the Letelier-Moffitt Prize for Human Rights from the Institute for Political Studies (IPS).
* The territory of the Garífuna people in Honduras has ...
... more injustice, such as the collection of the taxes from community water systems, and the use of water supply systems that don’t consider access for the population's domestic consumption a priority.
In ...
... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general.
In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...
... El Salvador has always been water, with the slogan "Yes to life, no to mining." It is widely recognized that El Salvador suffers from a water crisis of enormous proportions in terms of quantity, quality ...
... that documents the events and strategies that led to the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Seen from the perspective of the activists who let the local struggle against mining, the document ...
Minería Panamericana
Anglo American mining company has filed a lawsuit against a ban preventing Colombian coal miner Cerrejón from developing its La Puente project.
The latest lawsuit comes after Cerrejón ...
... with the arrival of more acts from rural areas, Castillo has taken the lead.
"The country is practically divided in half," said Alfredo Torres, director of Ipsos Peru.
About 96% of the votes cast in ...
... part that the government failed to adequately protect its mine from local communities that set up a peaceful protest camp out of fear that gold mining would contaminate scarce water supplies.
This accusation ...
Inquirer
Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco
In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting ...
... by lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc.
“Local 'no mining zones' and a legislated prohibition of the destructive open pit method will allow us to conserve our mineral resources until such time a genuine ...
... Council of San Rafael Las Flores attended the meeting. In addition, delegates from the Environment and Indigenous People’s offices of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH), and the directors of Pan American ...
... how mining investments could help in recovering the pandemic-battered economy.
Ibon Foundation cited the following “paltry” gains of the mining sector since 2001:
Taxes, fees and royalties from mining ...
... other things.
The case is in the charge of the Magistrate of the 4th Court (for criminal, drug activity, and crimes against the environment), in session from the 25th March 2021, the judge in charge ...