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21. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a mine in their area. Then in March 2018, the company began building an access road to the planned mine site and community members reported that the Guapinol River, a vital source of drinking water for ...; Created on 22 February 2021
22. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the ...; Created on 15 February 2021
23. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... standards. Many Lancaster County residents embraced the mine because of the hundreds of jobs it would bring to Kershaw, a poor town of about 2,000 people. The Haile mine, just up the road from Kershaw, ...; Created on 12 February 2021
24. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); Passage Liam Meisner Any future government that’s concerned about environmental and human rights issues will have to rein in mining companies operating abroad. Walter Aduviri knows better than anyone ...; Created on 21 January 2021
25. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, ...; Created on 14 January 2021
26. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... with the domestic legal system. Foreign investors can reduce the risk of investing abroad by ensuring that their investments benefit from the protections contained in investment treaties. This is not ...; Created on 06 January 2021
27. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... The railroading of public hearings for the Teesta dam, a China-funded hydropower project approximately worth $1 billion, poses threats to the earthquake-prone environment and customary rights of Lepcha ...; Created on 17 December 2020
28. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Director of the Association of Participatory Broadcasting of El Salvador (ARPAS), Leonel Herrera, denounced the U.S. government's influence in El Salvador’s policy decisions, including regarding the recent ...; Created on 01 December 2020
29. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... to pressure the company for greater benefits. On September 4, the day after the encampment was set up, the company released a communiqué referring to it as an “illegal road blockade.” Such statements ...; Created on 28 November 2020
30. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... received from the Honduran government. But in 2018, the company began building an access road to the planned mine site, which it will use to transport iron oxide to a pelletizing plant in the nearby city ...; Created on 28 November 2020
31. ATM Statement on illegal entry of fuel trucks in Nueva Vizcaya: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... opening an alternate road in Kasibu town, after the main road was made impassable, because of the overflow of the mine tailings pond. We demand that DILG Sec. Ano immediately revoke any order to the ...; Created on 28 November 2020
32. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... , a major political powerbroker who before his death in 2015 was accused of land grabs, violent repression and links with drug traffickers. Over the next few years, mining permits were issued and road ...; Created on 07 October 2020
33. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... added: “The Belarusian democratic opposition is an inevitably broad concept and this candidacy presents a comprehensive vision that reflects the reality of a diverse opposition and clearly supports the ...; Created on 29 September 2020
34. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... project, and by the spring of 2018, Pinares started widening a road within the park. Residents say their drinking water systems filled up with mud, which they reported to local authorities. With no response, ...; Created on 25 September 2020
35. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... the banners declaring, “If they were taken alive, we want them back alive.” In the weeks since there have also been demonstrations in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, as well as protests abroad in the United ...; Created on 03 September 2020
36. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... Disputes]” declared the president of Ositrán, the Peruvian government transport infrastructure agency, when Peru’s Congress in April suspended the collection of road tolls during the COVID-19 emergency. ...; Created on 01 September 2020
37. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... military troops being deployed instead to enforce the world’s longest and harshest COVID-19 lockdown sans real public health solutions. Duterte’s ‘yes men’ in Congress railroaded the Antiterrorism Law, ...; Created on 25 July 2020
38. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... consulted in the granting of its mining license. June 19: Protesters in the town of Casillas block the main road linking Guatemala City to the Escobal mine. July 5: The supreme court issues a provisional ...; Created on 23 July 2020
39. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... their residents now have to worry about investor lawsuits. In Peru, for example, where families are clogging the roads as they flee the country’s crowded cities in fear of the virus, a proposed emergency ...; Created on 23 July 2020
40. Status of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water: (Regional News); ... and Climate Change of the Legislative Assembly. The objective of the letter was to remind the deputies of the Committee that, together with broad sectors of civil society and its organizations, the organizations ...; Created on 03 July 2020

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