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21. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... , a major political powerbroker who before his death in 2015 was accused of land grabs, violent repression and links with drug traffickers. Over the next few years, mining permits were issued and road ...; Created on 07 October 2020
22. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Tohti, an Uyghur economist fighting for the rights of China’s Uyghur minority. Nominations for the Sakharov Prize can be made by political groups and/or groups of at least 40 MEPs. The democratic opposition ...; Created on 29 September 2020
23. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... political prisoners and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting views”. Trócaire – through it’s partner organisation Fundación San Alonso Rodríguez (FSAR) – has also been supporting ...; Created on 01 September 2020
24. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... a regional pattern of political persecution, where the governments of Central America´s CA4 region (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) are utilizing confinement measures, in the context of ...; Created on 20 August 2020
25. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... release all detainees without a sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting opinions. " Agro politics disadvantages peasants ...; Created on 31 July 2020
26. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... descended upon TV network giant ABS-CBN, also a known champion of environmental causes, by denying the renewal of its franchise for clearly political and self-serving motivations. We are in such desperate ...; Created on 25 July 2020
27. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... are at far greater risk. They tend to be the host rather than the home country for transnational corporations, and they are more politically vulnerable. Members of these governments who want to help ...; Created on 23 July 2020
28. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... the rights restrictions to limit the opposition. "With the argument that there is a drug trafficking crisis, Giammattei is trying to limit the rights to control the political opposition of people who do ...; Created on 22 July 2020
29. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... possibility of repealing the mining ban due to a current balance of power that favors pro-business political parties at the Legislative Assembly and at the Executive level, environmentalist have witnessed ...; Created on 15 July 2020
30. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Gloria, there are at least 51 political prisoners previously working in environmental defense remaining in prison. This is despite the appeal of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on world governments ...; Created on 21 April 2020
31. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... and rural communities who experience a permanent violation of the human right to water. Social organizations insist that the private management of water resources, proposed by pro business political ...; Created on 20 April 2020
32. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... is linked to the powerful Facusse family. The authors reviewed recent historical and political events in Honduras, with a particular focus on the last decade and found that the 2009 coup d'état and ...; Created on 20 April 2020
33. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... the environment, the regional political situation of Central America reveals a continuous weakening of the institutions that guarantee the rights of the population and a systematic pattern of violence ...; Created on 26 December 2019
34. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... meeting generated disagreements between political leaders and residents who described the declaration as a demagogic act of the part of the Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE). The open council was ...; Created on 26 December 2019
35. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... Hazel Torres, a mining officer at Centro Humboldt in Nicaragua, explained to GatoEncerrado that the country's political crisis has contributed to the evolution of concessions to the mining industry in ...; Created on 26 December 2019
36. Governor Aduviri must remain in jail: (Regional News); ... is chaired by Oscar Fredy Ayestas Ardiles and integrated by Iván Víctor Arias Calvo and Roger Díaz Haytara. A group of followers of the regional political leader also attended yesterday's hearing while ...; Created on 26 December 2019
37. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... they landed. They were granted amnesty as political refugees in 2007, applied for permanent residency in 2010, and have lived on the West Coast since. Today, Claver does advocacy work for Migrante Canada, ...; Created on 04 October 2019
38. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); ... on the strategy that the Guatemalan State will use for its legal defense. During the citation, conducted by Member of Parliament Leocadio Juracán, Jennifer Moore from the Center for Political Studies, ...; Created on 18 September 2019
39. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Human Rights Council (UN HRC) to investigate Oceanagold for its plethora of violations of environmental, civil-political, socio-economic, and other human rights. We demand President Duterte to fully reject ...; Created on 02 September 2019
40. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... to the detriment of the constitutional guarantees of local populations and the rights of nature. These violations manifest in the displacement of entire communities, destruction of biodiversity, political ...; Created on 05 May 2019

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