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21. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... its involvement in the Navidad project given clear and unwavering social opposition in Chubut. Rising tensions and violence against community members is also a concern at the company’s suspended Escobal ...; Created on 17 May 2021
22. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... rights abuses and environmental devastation. But they are up against a very powerful lobbying group and a government with very little will to transform the industry. In 2010, a private members bill was ...; Created on 12 May 2021
23. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
24. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... road to the mine. In response, community members in Tocoa, including Morazán, established the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods to campaign against the dispossession of natural ...; Created on 06 May 2021
25. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...; Created on 23 April 2021
26. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... OceanaGold’s private security force also used violence against community members. The commission also found that the company had erected fences and checkpoints on roads used by locals, as well as using ...; Created on 22 April 2021
27. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... him, stopping the landfill but not the 70,000 hogs. Brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, Broad and Cavanagh write, were key members of that opposition. They founded the first library and culture center ...; Created on 11 April 2021
28. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Rivera and three other defenders were brutally assassinated. But Marcelo’s brother Miguel, their friend Vidalina Morales, and the members of La Mesa never gave up. They linked up with international allies ...; Created on 05 April 2021
29. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... in the air, but did not tell the agency as required, state regulators say. Several Sierra Club members who attended the meeting, as well as neighbors, said that is unacceptable. Estridge, who also ...; Created on 02 April 2021
30. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... all the other community members about this risk. First, he was disappeared and nobody knew where he was until two weeks later when his body was found. The investigation that the government conducted supposedly ...; Created on 22 March 2021
31. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... groups,” she added. Community members from Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, accuse Canadian OceanaGold’s copper-gold project of serious human rights and environmental abuses. “In 2018, local indigenous people, ...; Created on 25 February 2021
32. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... hold Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, national officials, and members of the police and military accountable for these crimes will fuel widespread poverty and violence and force more families ...; Created on 23 February 2021
33. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... oxide mine. By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...; Created on 22 February 2021
34. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the ...; Created on 15 February 2021
35. No renewal for Didipio Mines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to the municipality,” the Nagtipunan municipal council said. The municipal council members’ resolution also endorsed to President Duterte a petition submitted before them by the Bugkalot-Ilongot IP communities ...; Created on 08 January 2021
36. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... the members of the Tribunal are appointed, Peru is likely to use the “clean hands doctrine” to allege lack of jurisdiction. In doing so, Peru will have to prove that the acts of corruption that it alleges ...; Created on 19 December 2020
37. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); IPS Beverly L. Longid Indigenous Peoples, advocates and members of IPMSDL call for continuing struggle for self-determination to combat imperialist plunder and state-terror. Credit: Carlo Manalansan, ...; Created on 17 December 2020
38. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... government failed to assess and acknowledge the “detrimental effects'' associated with OceanaGold’s acquisition of it. The watchdog lost the case and members say the corporation and the government are ...; Created on 17 December 2020
39. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... and its use managed by members of the ejido) inside the mine’s area of operations. In order to operate the mine, Equinox Gold rents land from Carrizalillo, on which the bulk of the mine installations are ...; Created on 28 November 2020
40. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Martínez Díaz - are members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa. They are imprisoned for their participation in a peaceful protest camp against a mining company, whose ...; Created on 29 September 2020

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