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1. Incoming Minister of the Environment confirms continuation of mining moratorium in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Statement signals the posibility of achieving a mining prohibition during the tenure of incoming president Salvador Sanchez Ceren by P. Cabezas Incoming minister of the environment and natural resources ...; Created on 29 May 2014
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... letters to Canadian parliamentarians and ask that they advocate with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada and the Canadian Ambassador to El Salvador for the release of the Santa Marta 5. Here is a ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... meeting was chaired by the Vice Minister of Sustainable Development for MEM, Oscar Pérez. In chronological order, Pérez made a presentation concerning the meetings that have been held with the Xinka People ...; Created on 26 May 2021
4. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violent confrontations. Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, faced frequent criticism for his unapologetic promotion of Canadian mining interests. His successor, Justin Trudeau, ...; Created on 07 May 2021
5. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and strong coalition. We learn that a right-wing environmental minister, Hugo Barrera, handed the water defenders an essential bit of legal strategy, and a conservative archbishop became an anti-mining ...; Created on 11 April 2021
6. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... officials including ambassadors and cabinet ministers went to great lengths to present Goldcorp’s position to the Guatemalan government and the IACHR. We are concerned that Canadian officials may have ...; Created on 02 March 2021
7. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... dollar company, and if you’re an Andean peasant community that kind of redress can be out of reach. Change certainly won’t be coming from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, whose hypocrisy on ...; Created on 21 January 2021
8. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); ... or the construction of health centers with specialized laboratories in the Coata river basin. Finally, the leaders also demanded that the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Presidencia del Consejo ...; Created on 28 December 2020
9. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... administered by the institution as well as the arbitrators acting in them since 2012. The digital platform publishes the full texts of the awards that have been issued in proceedings involving the Peruvian ...; Created on 19 December 2020
10. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... OceanaGold and New Zealand’s finance minister to the country’s High Court to stop the development of the new tailings pond. The group argued the company was allowed to acquire land near Waihi after the ...; Created on 17 December 2020
11. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... In Honduras, the Council of Ministers approved an Executive Decree on April 11, which establishes "measures to guarantee food sovereignty and security." The next day, President Juan Orlando Hernández ...; Created on 31 July 2020
12. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... it. In a summons with the National Unity of Hope, Oliverio García Rodas, Minister of the Interior, said he was not aware that the document has not physically reached Congress. Oliverio Castañeda also said ...; Created on 22 July 2020
13. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... by a mob of alleged mine employees who went to their homes to provoke them with threats of lynching. Social organizations and human rights defenders demand that President Giammattei, the Minister of the ...; Created on 12 June 2020
14. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... make this initiative a partisan proposal. On March 22, 2012, with the celebration of World Water Day, at the initiative of the then President Mauricio Funes through the Minister of Environment and Natural ...; Created on 20 April 2020
15. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... (SINAPH), in the Catalog of Inalienable Public Forest Heritage and the Real Estate Registry, to avoid future environmental conflicts in Honduras; The repeal of Ministerial Agreement 1402-2018, which ...; Created on 20 April 2020
16. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... unsurprisingly, failed. “The extractive industry is a large, wealthy and well-connected interest group, with prominent ex-politicians, including former Liberal Minister of International Trade Jim Peterson, ...; Created on 04 October 2019
17. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... pending. The National Roundtable against Metallic Mining also asked the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Fernando López, to respect the commitment to close the 15 mining projects, contemplated ...; Created on 18 September 2019
18. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In addition, they asked the Ministries of Environment and Economy to develop a plan that guarantees the prohibition of metal mining in the country. "We ask the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, ...; Created on 16 September 2019
19. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... in the Philippines Canada (ICHRP Canada). Canadian support groups have assembled two actions in Canada, one in Ottawa outside the Prime Minister’s office, and one in Vancouver in front of the OceanaGold ...; Created on 02 September 2019
20. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... will not be independent, but rather report to the Minister of International Trade Diversification. A final decision on the ombudsperson's powers is slated to be made in a month's time. There’s a long, ...; Created on 05 May 2019

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