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21. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... local mayor. Through it all, the water defenders stayed on message, focusing on the importance of clean water with slogans such as “Agua es vida” and “Si a la vida” (“Water is life”; “Yes to life”). The ...; Created on 23 April 2021
22. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... well on the cultural development of Wayúu communities, because they destroy the modes of organization and way of life of their inhabitants. Spiritual damage has been done through the desecration of sacred ...; Created on 22 April 2021
23. 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
24. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... that filter stormwater and harbor wildlife. Areas of the mine that contain toxic material also would be enlarged. The mine wants to add more areas for potentially acid generating rock and increase the ...; Created on 02 April 2021
25. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... than 50% of the water to the country. And for them, as for water defenders, in many other countries, water is life. Water is more precious than gold. So a group of water defenders from all over the country ...; Created on 22 March 2021
26. 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
27. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... toxic metal with an array of health impacts on people and wildlife. According to a DHEC enforcement order released Thursday, the Haile Gold Mine exceeded safe limits multiple times for mercury pollution ...; Created on 12 February 2021
28. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Nueva Vizcaya is a “watershed haven and agroforestry hub,” which makes the province the “life support system” of Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) and neighboring areas. “Our watersheds supply water both for ...; Created on 21 January 2021
29. 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
30. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the communities. Despite the fact that Carmelo lost the opportunity of having a job in the mining company, his life in agriculture would change in the following years. Alternatives to metal mining ...; Created on 05 January 2021
31. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... collective and continuous defense of ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of life and the right to self-determination. As the pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepen, the world’s ...; Created on 17 December 2020
32. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the deputies, the change concerns Article 2 of the Constitution, which establishes that water is a human right. Thus the article guarantees individual and fundamental rights, such as life, physical and ...; Created on 30 November 2020
33. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... Canadian authorities mean that conflicts like this one will continue to proliferate. However, efforts by organizations and communities to share and disseminate their struggles and experiences as widely ...; Created on 28 November 2020
34. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Sea. Due to his organizing work, Roldan has been repeatedly red-tagged, endangering his life. Cristeta Sison, both a farmer and a fisherfolk, leads an anti-mining initiative in Zambales and Pangasinan ...; Created on 07 October 2020
35. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... condemned by lawyers, rights groups and US and European lawmakers. “My dad has been jailed for defending a river which gives our community life, for trying to stop the exploitation of natural resources ...; Created on 07 October 2020
36. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in jail for defending the Guapinol and San Pedro Rivers, for defending life,” says the 26-year-old, who has become the public face of her father’s plight. Before his arrest, Mr. Sorto led the family ministry ...; Created on 25 September 2020
37. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... racist and corrupt Honduran state has denied the Garífuna people opportunities and as a result of all the crimes that have been committed against us, we have been forced to migrate to seek a better life ...; Created on 03 September 2020
38. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... on Democracy Now! Right now as the Garífuna community, we are experimenting the worst days in the life of the community since 20 years to now. We are in danger daily, all the leaders of the Garífuna community, ...; Created on 17 August 2020
39. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... were born alive, but with deformations, some died, and others have life-long injuries. For example, those babies were born without a part of the brain, or have no motor ability, or speech." The study by ...; Created on 09 August 2020
40. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... rendering security measures in his favor ordered by the IAHRC inadequate to guarantee his life. Hehas been subject to surveillance and harassment by the paramilitary group La Confianza; on multiple occasions ...; Created on 31 July 2020

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