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21. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... struggle, the communities in resistance to the mine were violently evicted by the police. By February 2016, the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya won a Guatemalan Supreme Court ruling that provisionally ...; Created on 22 May 2021
22. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...; Created on 17 May 2021
23. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... He moved to Canada in 2007 as a political refugee after he and his family were violently attacked in response to his activism. The ambush resulted in his wife’s death, and left Claver and his daughter ...; Created on 12 May 2021
24. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... basis for having detained the defenders and even less so for continuing to detain them. The group took into account that the charges initially filed against the defenders were dismissed for lack of evidence, ...; Created on 11 May 2021
25. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The women first brought the suit to the Superior Court of Ontario in 2011. The Intercept recently published a damning article drawing on internal corporate documents that were released because of this ...; Created on 07 May 2021
26. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... the committee members were nominated for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded annually by the European Union. Yet, in Honduras, these same activists are victims of defamation campaigns, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
27. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... regulations were now in place to boost environmental safeguards. But Greenpeace country director Lea Guerrero said the lifting of the moratorium was "outrageous". "Mining and extractive activities in ...; Created on 05 May 2021
28. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... were also impacted. The first round of permanent layoff came more than a year after FTAA between OceanaGold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), OceanaGold’s local subsidiary, and the Philippine government expired. ...; Created on 05 May 2021
29. 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
30. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...; Created on 22 April 2021
31. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... firearms to intimidate them. Residents were beaten and one was shot by OceanaGold security personnel. The report noted that OceanaGold “is largely responsible for the continuing threats to security of ...; Created on 22 April 2021
32. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... more jobs, the government says, in the country with one of the highest unemployment rates in Southeast Asia. Some 190,000 people were employed in mining in the Philippines before the pandemic, according ...; Created on 15 April 2021
33. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... get to decide whether a sovereign nation’s laws were legal? We found this completely wrong, completely outrageous.” Outrage is a frequently occurring sentiment in a story that begins with “white men ...; Created on 11 April 2021
34. 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
35. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... dealing with loud noises from the mine that keep people up at night, Estridge said. “We’re on land that has been owned by our family for over 100 years in this area, and we were here first,’’ she said, ...; Created on 02 April 2021
36. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of mining and water, educated their neighbors, and organized farmers, priests, and international allies to speak out — even as some received death threats and four frontline water defenders were brutally ...; Created on 28 March 2021
37. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... water defenders. These are not people with a lot of resources. Mining companies offered their towns jobs and money, but they were not interested. Why not? Robin Broad: Beginning with Marcelo, people ...; Created on 22 March 2021
38. Mine reappears on list of suspects: Lead source inquiry welcomed: (OceanaGold); ... mine in a list of possible contamination sources suggested by the community that were still being considered. The mine at Macraes is being considered along with old landfills in the area, lead shot ...; Created on 13 March 2021
39. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that its operations were contaminating their water resources. The portions of the documents that Global Affairs Canada did release suggest that Canadian officials swiftly intervened in the case on ...; Created on 02 March 2021
40. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... who have peacefully opposed the mine for years, were falsely accused of sedition, making them targets for extrajudicial killings,” said Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada. “In 2020, police used violent ...; Created on 25 February 2021

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