... of extractive industries in the region.
Today we have reached end of the Central American Tour: "Latin American Women Weaving Territories" that started on January 7 and has toured Guatemala, Honduras ...
Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería
“Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. ...
... El Salvador to encourage their municipal authorities declare their territories "free of mining” through a Municipal ordinance.
This initiative adds to the efforts la Mesa is leading to respond to Canadian-Australian ...
... from the communities that representatives of mining companies are visiting their territories to offer social programs and to lease large quantities of land."
"With that in mind," Cabezas concluded, "the ...
... rights of Guatemalan citizens to be consulted on important matters that could affect their lives and territories.
Sowing division in the communities
Following the results of the consultations where ...
... been one of the voices that have warned about what is happening in Honduras: the dispossession of the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples and what she considers to be the genocide of the Garifuna ...
THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES
San Salvador, December 22, 2021. ...
... to resource extraction projects on their territories.
This solidarity should be grounded in meaningful relationship building, and can take on many tangible forms— such as collective divestment from the ...
... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...
... efforts to ensure that Glencore assumes responsibility for its impacts, the landscape in the territories does not seem to have changed much. For this reason it is necessary to support the push for mechanisms ...
... the application of selective justice that, on the one hand, promotes impunity in sectors linked to power and on the other hand, it is cruel against those who fight for the defense of the territories against ...
... indigenous territories.
Wealth outpours to secure corporate profit at the expense of indigenous rights to land and environment protection. Imperialist plunder dominates over people’s health and lives. ...
... are the most drastic measures used to stop Garífuna organizing so they can eventually hand their territories over to transnational capital.”
Our Garífuna ancestors arrived in Honduras in 1797 and have ...
... territories.”
Some of the Guapinol human rights defenders pictured in court in Honduras. RISK FROM COVID 19
At the end of April 2020, the National Congress of Honduras reformed the Code of Criminal ...
... case is emblematic for all those who are fighting to guarantee their rights against extractive projects in their territories". For the eight defenders already in pretrial detention, Magistrates María Luisa ...
... the territories and attack the defenders, the press release said.
A total of 116 organizations from Honduras signed the letter addressed to the National Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders, ...
... brief shutdown. As a result, not only have mine sites become a vector for the spread of the coronavirus into rural areas and vulnerable territories, but land and water protectors on lockdown — who’ve been ...
... licenses and operations which are being resisted by communities defending their territories, environment and human rights. Aldo spoke in particular about the ‘Aymarazo‘ in Peru and the legacy of Chevron-Texaco ...