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1. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); The State Sammy The reality of living near a gold mine is a worrisome thing, says Angel Estridge, whose family owns property less than a mile from a pond full of nasty mining waste. She fears that ...; Created on 02 April 2021
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 30 years ago. Now, like thousands of other prisoners in El Salvador, they are in grave danger of dying or being killed while awaiting an opportunity to prove their innocence. Their families and legal team ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... territories. In addition, several Garífuna communities are experiencing forced displacement. One of them is Triunfo de la Cruz, where 400 families left the community in 2019, and in July 2020, during ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... their urban development projects, thereby generating scarcity in impoverished populations; two emblematic cases of these practices are the Agreements signed between ANDA and the Dueñas and Poma families, ...; Created on 23 December 2021
5. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... an effort to provide incentives for artisanal miners to convert to more sustainable occupations, reparations for families that were victims of mining violence have not been issued, no efforts have been ...; Created on 29 June 2021
6. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that the expansion caused. Over forty families were uprooted and moved to a “Residential Unit” that adjoins the mine site, where the company exercises near complete control over daily life. On top of these ...; Created on 17 May 2021
7. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... violations. This report reveals the presence of high levels of lead in the blood of children, along with anemia, learning problems, headaches, nosebleeds and even leukemia. The affected families hold the ...; Created on 22 April 2021
8. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Salvadoran civil war, there were few influential families linked to the sector. Since domestic elites in tourism and agriculture depended heavily on water, many supported the defenders or at least refrained ...; Created on 05 April 2021
9. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violation. They also stressed that due to the COVID crisis, the release is urgent. One month later, the Honduran State has not responded. The Municipal Committee, families of the defenders and their ...; Created on 14 March 2021
10. 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
11. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); * Angélica Cárcamo / Norma Ramírez - ARPAS In 2000, the Pacific Rim mining company intended to employ 450 families in the Department of Cabañas, north of El Salvador. Although the mining project was ...; Created on 05 January 2021
12. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... water supplies have been depleted and contaminated by arsenic and other heavy metals. Families in the community report spending upwards of $6,300 CAD a year on bottled water for drinking and bathing. A ...; Created on 28 November 2020
13. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... related to land struggles, including Carlos Escaleras, whom the national park is named after. Mr. George believes he is being targeted because of his efforts to accompany the victims and their families. ...; Created on 25 September 2020
14. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... against this corruption and impunity and are needed now more than ever. The ‘Guapinol 8’ have been locked away from their families for a year but Trócaire will continue to support them and their community ...; Created on 01 September 2020
15. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... with their families. Those who come from outside live in a separate house but they still live in the communities. A significant proportion of the workers are asymptomatic. The problem is that the virus ...; Created on 09 August 2020
16. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... company Pinares Investment. Despite multiple appeals, their lawyers have received no response. Meanwhile, their families are not allowed to visit and there are severe water shortages in the prisons. In ...; Created on 23 July 2020
17. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... class families were hawking their valuables on the street. After dark, the most desperate would search through garbage cans for food. That was Argentina in 2002. In that dark hour, as Argentine officials ...; Created on 23 July 2020
18. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... for families affected by COVID-19 and due to climatic events that impact the segments of the population with less economic resources. “The issue of risk and disaster management must be planned, as well ...; Created on 06 June 2020
19. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... that the water shortage is already perceived, although he, like other inhabitants, is not fully understanding the consequences that the mine will bring for the 200 families living in Pita Floja. According ...; Created on 21 April 2020
20. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... After having voluntarily presented themselves to the competent authorities at the end of August last year, they were sent to preventive detention. Since then, the families and the legal team of the activists ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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