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21. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... its female leaders—proved instrumental. But notable heroes also emerged in the right-wing ARENA party. This is especially significant if you remember that from 1980 to 1992, roughly 75,000 people were ...; Created on 05 April 2021
22. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador's conservative ARENA [National Republican Alliance] party found common ground with former rebel leaders and Catholic Church officials to ban mining? Luis Parada Basically, they, like all the ...; Created on 22 March 2021
23. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to support the Honduras Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Act. It’s long overdue that President Juan Orlando Hernández be held accountable for his troubling leadership.” “I remain extremely concerned ...; Created on 23 February 2021
24. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... what pushing back against Canadian corporate interests can do. In 2011, Aduviri, an Indigenous Aymara leader from Peru’s Puno region, helped lead a protest movement against a silver mine in the region ...; Created on 21 January 2021
25. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... has generated violence and conflict, causing at least seven deaths to date and the prosecution of 32 community leaders. The denial for environmentalists to wait for their trial in freedom contrasts with ...; Created on 28 December 2020
26. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); Wayka Arsenic and mercury were found in the bodies of people in the districts near the Coata river basin, in the Puno region, which is being contaminated by mining tailings. Local leaders claim that ...; Created on 28 December 2020
27. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... forced evacuation and closure of indigenous Lumada schools. Indigenous elders and vocal anti-mining leaders, such as Domingo Choc Che from Guatemala and Bae Milda Ansabo from Mindanao, suffered brutal ...; Created on 17 December 2020
28. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... social-cooperation agreement was set up to alleviate some of the residents’ sky-high medical costs, but under Equinox’s leadership, medicines arrived months late and were priced well above market rates. ...; Created on 28 November 2020
29. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... of social leaders who are protesting the ecological damage the mine may cause in protected land, according to documents obtained through a cross-border journalism collaboration between Contracorriente, ...; Created on 28 November 2020
30. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); Luis Solano | Ellen Moore | Jen Moore - IPS / Earthworks DOWNLOAD THE STUDY HEREAcross the Global South, and especially in Latin America, international mining companies have used a combination of disturbing ...; Created on 21 October 2020
31. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Police in order to force fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day. Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered A posthumous award was also ...; Created on 07 October 2020
32. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The community has been militarized, and its leaders subjected to threats, harassment and smear campaigns. Several residents fled, seeking asylum in the US to escape criminal persecution, in a case widely ...; Created on 07 October 2020
33. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... as their leader and representative of the democratic opposition." When the Islamic State arrived in Mosul in August 2014, Mgr Najeeb Michaeel, Archbishop of Mosul, ensured the evacuation of Christians, ...; Created on 29 September 2020
34. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... government. Unwavering community opposition and legal actions halted the project in 2016. With the company’s leadership under criminal investigation and its mine suspended, KCA turned to Investor State ...; Created on 24 August 2020
35. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... dated March 3, maintains the arbitrariness in the case and clearly points to politically motivated judicial persecution of local leaders and community members who have been at the forefront of environmental protection ...; Created on 18 August 2020
36. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects fueled by foreign investors and the Honduran government. “We are in danger daily — all the leaders of the Garífuna community, all the defendants of the land in Honduras,” says Carla Garcia, international ...; Created on 17 August 2020
37. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... leader Roberto de la Rosa Dávila, who insisted on stopping exploration at the mine, received threats from Grupo Frisco, and it is feared that he may be arbitrarily detained. "Instead of respecting the need ...; Created on 09 August 2020
38. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... social leaders, indigenous and farming communities who vulnerability has increased due to the record number of threats by armed groups in the midst of the COVID 19 health crisis. "The COVID-19 pandemic ...; Created on 31 July 2020
39. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... sided with the company to absolve it of responsibility and to discredit the Shuar People’s elected leadership instead. As documented in Voices from the Ground, other mineral exploration companies have ...; Created on 23 July 2020
40. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... with indigenous communities, a requirement of the International Labour Organization’s convention 169 (ILO 169). But while Guatemala ratified the convention in 1996, industry leaders say regulations setting ...; Created on 23 July 2020

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