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21. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 20 January 2023
22. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... is not alone. The international and national community recognizes the importance of the struggle of organized communities against mining and death projects. Freedom for prisoners politicians." The arguments ...; Created on 19 January 2023
23. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... paramilitary groups, including the massacres perpetrated in Santa Marta and surrounding communities, by troops from the Sensuntepeque Military Detachment No2, led by the recently deceased Colonel Sigifredo ...; Created on 13 January 2023
24. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... article 64 of the Municipal Code and not on the 169 convention of the ILO where the ministry has jurisdiction and advantage against indigenous communities. The people of Asunción Mita identify themselves ...; Created on 23 September 2022
25. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... of Jutiapa in Guatemala and is home to the Cerro Blanco mining project. Local communities and environmental organizations have long been concerned about the environmental impacts of this project on shared ...; Created on 22 September 2022
26. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... mining project that poses environmentmental threats for both Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities. The International Observation Mission was made up of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining ...; Created on 21 September 2022
27. 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
28. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... has forced local communities to assume water supply by themselves, with the support of NGOs and international aid. Although the Law recognizes community water systems in a nominal way, it does not provide ...; Created on 23 December 2021
29. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...; Created on 16 December 2021
30. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and communities without access to this vital liquid, the source of all life, are taking to the streets. Metal mining is a threat to water due to enormous consumption and contamination with toxic materials, ...; Created on 14 December 2021
31. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...; Created on 29 June 2021
32. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections. Case in ...; Created on 07 June 2021
33. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... plants, and their habitats. Whatever short-term economic benefits to be had from mining (and studies show these never go to the affected communities), this remains a losing proposition when we consider ...; Created on 02 June 2021
34. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... biggest blows to efforts to preserve natural resources in the country. It was also seen to escalate threats against communities opposing mining projects. In 2019, the Philippines topped the list of nations ...; Created on 27 May 2021
35. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... country. The potential entry of 291 mining projects also spells “doom” to affected communities of farmers, fishers and indigenous peoples, according to Pamalakaya. “This is an impending environmental ...; Created on 24 May 2021
36. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... struggle, the communities in resistance to the mine were violently evicted by the police. By February 2016, the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya won a Guatemalan Supreme Court ruling that provisionally ...; Created on 22 May 2021
37. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...; Created on 17 May 2021
38. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects that are environmentally destructive and threaten the livelihoods of surrounding communities. According to ICHRP-Toronto member Angela Asuncion, 60 percent of transnational mines in the Philippines ...; Created on 12 May 2021
39. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the company to respect the Indigenous Xinka people’s right to be freely consulted without violence and threats, and to immediately cease interference in their communities. Indigenous leaders such as Secretary-Treasurer ...; Created on 12 May 2021
40. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to protect the rights of Indigenous communities, and the commission retracted it in 2011. https://cnca-rcrce.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JR-Backgrounder-ENGLISH.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1yK83wtnIk25AaXha29gP00DC0voO93Gaq5l462xei8QjI_fOpvgmZKv4 ...; Created on 11 May 2021

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