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21. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... defend the environment is to defend our common home.” In 2019, the Diocese of Trujillo pointed to what it called an illegal concession in the national park as the source of the conflict. According to ...; Created on 25 September 2020
22. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... El Tambor gold mine — or compensating the mining firm for hundreds of millions of dollars in future profits it had little hope of ever earning. “KCA bought the project knowing there was social conflict ...; Created on 24 August 2020
23. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... El Dorado, in the east of the country. Social conflict and environmental damage Canoero highlights that in Mexico there are 25,500 mining concessions that occupy 28% of the country's territory. In 31 ...; Created on 09 August 2020
24. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... and other extractive projects, who have faced particularly intense forms of harassment and repression from police and military, exacerbating territorial conflicts. Meanwhile, human rights and environmental ...; Created on 23 July 2020
25. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... project as a source of possible conflict, since it could exacerbate the scarcity of water resources in the Tambo river basin. This means that as Quellaveco’s start date of operations approaches, this conflict ...; Created on 22 July 2020
26. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... years to resolve the conflict over land ownership. As palm plantations expand, villages are crowded and arrest warrants are issued against community leaders. In times of siege states, community leaders ...; Created on 22 July 2020
27. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... NAFTA over an environmental dispute concerning limestone quarrying in the state of Quintana Roo. The company is in conflict with the municipality of Solidaridad (where the resort town Playa del Carmen ...; Created on 03 May 2020
28. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... over violations linked to their operations; An end to the Philippine Government’s counter-insurgency program under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) which encourages ...; Created on 21 April 2020
29. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... are criminals who hinder the country's economic development. But according to their lawyers, they are citizens who defend fundamental rights such as the right to water. The conflict between the residents ...; Created on 20 April 2020
30. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... the local oligarchy that has controlled post-coup governments are at the roots of the current conflict in Bajo Aguan. According to the study, successive governments have deepened neoliberal policies, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
31. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... because the local authorities excused themselves from making decisions around the conflicting project of the company Inversiones Los Pinares. Far from listening to the community´s demands, the town hall ...; Created on 26 December 2019
32. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... resistance against one of the most polluting and conflictive industries known on the planet. On October 14, 2016, after seven years of litigation at the International Center for the Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 26 December 2019
33. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... conflicts caused by the industry. ------------------- Translated by: Giada Ferrucci Translated from: https://gatoencerrado.news/2019/11/13/ambientalistas-senalan-que-gobiernos-centroamericanos-favorecen-a-mineras-y-criminalizan-a-activistas/ ...; Created on 26 December 2019
34. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... implementing an economic agenda based on the plunder of our natural resources. But in the communities of Tocoa, we are fighting for the defense of the environment”. Land conflict in the Bajo Aguan ...; Created on 24 October 2019
35. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... he didn’t want to spark conflict. Instead, Coumans said the embassy grilled Simongo and the others, and the diplomat questioned whether they had legitimate ties to the Communist Party. “It was like an ...; Created on 04 October 2019
36. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... century. In the last few decades it has expanded with the arrival of transnational mining corporations to the area. The arrival of foreign corporations generated social conflict, as local residents ...; Created on 07 May 2019
37. ENDORSERS / SIGNATARIOS: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Mujeres Transformando el Mundo (MEXICO) Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales (CHILE) Otras Voces por la Tierra(URUGUAY) OTROS MUNDOS AC/CHIAPAS (MEXICO) Parlamento de los Pueblos ...; Created on 25 February 2019
38. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... crimes committed during the socio-environmental conflict known as the “Aymarazo” in 2011. On September 17th, 2018, the Peruvian Supreme Court will hear Aduviri’s appeal in Lima. According to the Sign-On ...; Created on 16 September 2018
39. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension: (Regional News); ... one of the largest primary silver producers in the world. Conflict, violent confrontations and protests, however, have plagued the project. “We do it for the children,” Máximo Abrego, a 79-year-old grandfather ...; Created on 16 September 2018
40. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... of natural resources - mostly by multinational corporations - by limiting and violating the rights of the population. The Aymarazo The conflict known as "El Aymarazo" was a mobilization in the ...; Created on 28 August 2018

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