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21. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... legitimacy of the charges. A group of 17 U.S. members of Congress is the latest to call for their release and a closer look at the steps the government is taking to renew a defunct mining sector. The ...; Created on 20 December 2023
22. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... (or around) April 22 (Earth Day) and to finish on April 30th. We are asking groups like yours to join Salvadoran social movement organizations in organizing solidarity actions to take place in cities ...; Created on 08 April 2023
23. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... industry. This is unique in the region, the result of years of organizing by social groups, environmental organizations, and the Catholic Church. Under President Nayib Bukele, however, this mining ...; Created on 06 April 2023
24. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...; Created on 04 April 2023
25. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The water defenders were part of a resistance group fighting the right-wing dictatorship during the war. But they come from Santa Marta, a community founded by displaced people largely considered to be ...; Created on 03 April 2023
26. 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
27. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... over local consultations. “If the company wishes to have the referendum overturned, it must find a pro-mining group to initiate an injunction through a local court,” said Armando Teo, a local community ...; Created on 22 September 2022
28. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... place in Guatemala, and in particular in the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the (Guatemalan) municipality of Asunción Mita," the mayors expressed in a statement. Grouped in the Río Lempa Trinational Association, ...; Created on 12 June 2022
29. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... place in Guatemala, and in particular in the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the (Guatemalan) municipality of Asunción Mita," the mayors expressed in a statement. Grouped in the Río Lempa Trinational Association, ...; Created on 12 June 2022
30. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... we will continue to demand a General Water Law that guarantees sustainability and the human rights of the population, above the interests of any oligarchic group in the country. Water is not for sale, ...; Created on 23 December 2021
31. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to sell their projects. The struggle took international dimensions when two companies, Commerce Group and Pacific Rim (later acquired by OceanaGold), decided to sue the government of El Salvador at the ...; Created on 29 June 2021
32. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... West Philippine Sea. Pass ‘green’ recovery measures instead Kalikasan PNE urged the government to enforce what it called a “green recovery policy,” instead of reviving pro-mining measures. The group ...; Created on 24 May 2021
33. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... rights abuses and environmental devastation. But they are up against a very powerful lobbying group and a government with very little will to transform the industry. In 2010, a private members bill was ...; Created on 12 May 2021
34. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...; Created on 11 May 2021
35. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... A UN working group recently ruled that the the detention of the eight defenders is arbitrary. The defenders have since launched legal action, and Blanca Izaguirre, the country’s human rights ombudsperson ...; Created on 06 May 2021
36. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... a series of devastating mining accidents. The executive order released Thursday was welcomed by the mining sector -- but green groups branded the decision "outrageous" and warned it could lead to more environmental ...; Created on 05 May 2021
37. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the local community. Prostitutes were sent to local community groups to try to entice the water defenders’ leaders. Gang members were bused in from San Salvador to intimidate opponents of the pro-mining ...; Created on 23 April 2021
38. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... during the pandemic. In Colombia, Glencore also controls the business group Prodeco, which owns coal mines and associated infrastructure in the Cesar and Magdalena departments. Prodeco has five mining ...; Created on 22 April 2021
39. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the land,” Morrison said. “When OceanaGold’s FTAA expired in June 2019, community groups and local and provincial governments took action, including a legally sanctioned barricade, forcing OceanaGold ...; Created on 22 April 2021
40. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... groups say. Signed April 14 and made public April 15, Executive Order 130 highlights the contribution of the extractives sector in reviving the country’s economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The sector ...; Created on 15 April 2021

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