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21. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... an important source of water and economic activity for the local population. As president of the Front for the Defense of Natural Resources in the South Zone of Puno, Aduviri made requests for dialogue ...; Created on 21 January 2021
22. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... The judge decided that the defenders will not be able to defend themselves in freedom after she reviewed the measures requested by the defending legal team. A group of human rights defense lawyers had ...; Created on 28 December 2020
23. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); ... the State has failed to protect their health. The Unified Defense Front (Frente de Defensa Unificado) against the contamination of the Coata River basin announced that they will go on indefinite strike ...; Created on 28 December 2020
24. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... collective and continuous defense of ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of life and the right to self-determination. As the pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepen, the world’s ...; Created on 17 December 2020
25. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Lawyer Robert Chan for the defense of natural resources in Palawan. He leads a small team called “para-enforcers” Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) where they sharpen and strengthen conservation laws often ...; Created on 07 October 2020
26. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Martínez Díaz - are members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa. They are imprisoned for their participation in a peaceful protest camp against a mining company, whose ...; Created on 29 September 2020
27. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods were victims of a defamation campaign while they were in Washington to receive an international human rights award for their environmental activism. Pinares ...; Created on 25 September 2020
28. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); "Business Human Right Legal Defense of Guapinol Water Protectors Respond to Disgraceful "Copy-Paste" Appeals Court Ruling with Constitutional Action", 24 de agosto de 2020 The eight defenders have been ...; Created on 24 August 2020
29. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); The Court of Appeals ruling confirms Honduras as the most dangerous country for environmental defenders in the world. On August 15, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Public and Common Goods ...; Created on 20 August 2020
30. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... to control entry to their territory, producing much of their own food, practicing mutual aid, and valuing traditional and preventative health practices — are their best defense right now. The risks they ...; Created on 23 July 2020
31. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... Ministry of Defense, and the National Civil Police have been carrying out dozens of daily raids in the municipalities where the restriction of rights was decreed. Among the findings, marijuana and poppy ...; Created on 22 July 2020
32. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the deterioration of environmental regulations under the Government of president Nayib Bukele. “We want to take this moment to reflect about how to keep a spirit of struggle in defense ...; Created on 15 July 2020
33. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... those employed in the company clash against those people who instead are fighting for the defense of life, the water, and nature. On Friday, June 12, 2020, the defenders of life in El Estor were harassed ...; Created on 12 June 2020
34. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... as water rights, food sovereignty, the effects of climate change and the defense of rights defenders human and the vulnerability of the population to natural phenomena. “Human rights defenders, and ...; Created on 06 June 2020
35. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... she said. “We have donated this time in defense of our territory and of future generations… and we´ll continue to struggle until the end.” For their peaceful resistance, La Puya has faced serious reprisals. ...; Created on 03 May 2020
36. 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
37. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... that with the presentation of this improved legal proposal they marked history, because different sectors of society have managed to unify in defense of water resources. For her part, Tati Oliva, representative ...; Created on 20 April 2020
38. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... in which they demanded the Honduran authorities to guarantee the defense of human rights in the country. On a visit to Honduras last year, some of the deputies met with representatives of the Honduran ...; Created on 20 April 2020
39. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... consists in the manipulation of the punitive power of the State by of state and non-state actors with the aim of hindering their defense efforts and thus preventing the legitimate exercise of their right ...; Created on 20 April 2020
40. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ACAFREMIN Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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