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1. A Losing Proposition: The Failure of Canadian ISDS Policy at Home and Abroad: (General mining reports ); Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood There has been a debate over Investor-State Dispute Systems (ISDS), a process for resolving settlement disputes between foreign investors and national governments. Many people ...; Created on 30 April 2016
2. 'Let Us Care for Everyone's Home': The Catholic Church's Role in Keeping Gold Mining Out of El Salva: (Background and reports ); A recently published essay by Phd candidate Rachel Nadelman looks at the role of the Catholic Church in the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador.; Created on 08 April 2016
3. 'Let Us Care for Everyone's Home': The Catholic Church's Role in Keeping Gold Mining Out of El Salva: (Background and reports ); A recently published essay by Phd candidate Rachel Nadelman looks at the role of the Catholic Church in the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador. Abstract: "A majority of Salvadoran citizens and ...; Created on 03 March 2016
4. 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
5. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... 18th of September in the municipality of Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, Guatemala. The consultation was related to the presence of metal mining projects in Asuncion Mita, home to the controversial Cerro Blanco ...; Created on 21 September 2022
6. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... environment and the territories in Honduras? Berta's murder showed us that in this country you are not safe even in your own home. The fact that they came to kill her at home was a very clear message ...; Created on 25 December 2021
7. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... suffocating conditions, residents are concerned about potential impacts on their health, given the close proximity of their homes to the mine. Further questions were raised about the conflict that Pan ...; Created on 17 May 2021
8. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the mining industry with judicial power that enables victims overseas to seek remedies in home states.” She said that while there have been movements in European nations (such as France) to pass “human ...; Created on 12 May 2021
9. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... then by court order for discrimination and lack of prior consultation with the Xinka people. Most recently, on April 14, unknown assailants fired shots at the home of one of the Xinka representatives ...; Created on 12 May 2021
10. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has reneged on pledges to regulate them and end the abuses Canada is home to 75 percent of the world’s mining companies. Firms based or listed in Canada operate approximately four thousand mineral projects ...; Created on 07 May 2021
11. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); The Conversation Giada Ferrucci Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
12. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and activist who directed a cultural center in his rural hometown of San Isidro. The authors recount these dramatic setbacks and how the movement responded to them, extracting lessons that might apply ...; Created on 23 April 2021
13. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the descriptor “ordinary people” in the subtitle and throughout the book strikes an odd note. These are people who risked, and some lost, their lives to defend their homes and communities and in so doing ...; Created on 11 April 2021
14. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... leaks from the waste disposal pond could pollute well water, as well as a creek that runs by her family’s home, particularly since the mine has broken environmental laws multiple times. For now, she’s ...; Created on 02 April 2021
15. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... homes have been rented or sold since the mine opened, he said. According to the expansion plans, OceanaGold will enlarge the 4,552 mine site by 832 acres, or about 18 percent. Nearly 100 acres of wetlands ...; Created on 30 March 2021
16. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... programs to weatherize homes — much less upgrade the state’s decaying water infrastructure. This extreme weather disaster gave Americans a glimpse of the daily reality of billions who struggle to protect ...; Created on 28 March 2021
17. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... at the consular level in the Philippines and through its lack of corporate accountability mechanisms at home. “When some of the villagers were falsely accused, facing threats of extrajudicial killing because ...; Created on 25 February 2021
18. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Próspera is now building and marketing luxury homes on the property. According to a Próspera survey, those interested in inhabiting the zone can seemingly reserve a residence with a refundable $5,000 ...; Created on 15 February 2021
19. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... hurt the environment or anyone living in the area because the concentrations were low and homes weren’t close enough to be affected. The Haile Gold Mine has made recent improvements and is now complying ...; Created on 12 February 2021
20. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... government officials that heavy rains had caused water from a cyanide leaching pit to flood local communities and contaminate homes and farmland. Environmental authorities recommended an evacuation but ...; Created on 21 January 2021

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