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21. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... Community Meeting that declared Tocoa as a Municipality Free of Mining, in November 2019; and based on the illegality of the mining concessions ASP and ASP2, we demand the immediate cancellation of the ...; Created on 20 August 2020
22. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... such as tuberculosis. While this connection has yet to be well investigated, we identified seven cases in which nearly 250 community members tested positive for Covid-19 and four died. Zoom meetings ...; Created on 23 July 2020
23. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... annual shareholder meeting of London-registered mining giant Anglo American took place behind closed doors on May 5th 2020. The company is the owner of the Quellaveco copper mine in the Moquegua region ...; Created on 22 July 2020
24. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... say that it is a real honor for me to participate in this commemoration. And to be with Miguel and all of you. Marcelo, whom we did not have the honor of meeting in person at IPS, is nevertheless the ...; Created on 15 July 2020
25. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... in shifts to keep 24-hour watch over the access gate to the “El Tambor” gold mining project. Catholic masses, community meetings and cultural activities have punctuated this nearly decade-long vigil along ...; Created on 03 May 2020
26. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the Ombudsman for Human Rights showed interest. For its part, the Foreign Ministry of El Salvador granted a meeting in late 2018 to learn about the subject. However, further actions did not go beyond the ...; Created on 21 April 2020
27. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... of the Commons of Tocoa, and national and international human rights organizations have mobilized within the framework of the "Meeting of the peoples for water", to demand freedom of the seven defenders. ...; Created on 20 April 2020
28. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); Tegucigalpa, February 26, 2020 – Preliminary conclusions of a report commissioned by the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) - presented at the Peoples for Water meeting in Tegucigalpa, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
29. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua), participated in the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining – ACAFREMIN. The theme addressed during the meeting has ...; Created on 26 December 2019
30. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... meeting generated disagreements between political leaders and residents who described the declaration as a demagogic act of the part of the Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE). The open council was ...; Created on 26 December 2019
31. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); Marvin Diaz - Gato Encerrado The criminalization of environmentalists and land defenders was the thematic focus of the fifth meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining (ACAFREMIN) in El Salvador. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
32. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... a requirement to hold town hall meetings (Cabildo Abierto) on matters that affect the lives of local communities. As a result, local organizations organized under the Committee have launched a campaign ...; Created on 24 October 2019
33. Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... If we let them continue exploiting the environment’s resources then we’d just be accessory to it and that is something we could not allow,” Bahag said. During meetings, Bahag said Oceanagold representatives ...; Created on 16 September 2019
34. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to participate in the IV Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance against Mining -ACAFREMIN. The meeting aimed ...; Created on 05 May 2019
35. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... identify. Some new evidence suggests that the international arbitration community is starting to take the TPF issue seriously. According to attendees at the latest meeting of the United Nations agency ...; Created on 05 May 2019
36. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... company wants to continue drilling and everything they do" added Palma, 27 years old. She was a participant, in a February 22, meeting between inhabitants of towns neighboring the mine, in the parish ...; Created on 03 May 2019
37. Solidarity Statement to the People of El Salvador on the day of OceanGold's AG: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... spoke to meetings all over Australia and at what was the first rally out front of OceanaGold’s office in Collins Street Melbourne. Since then we have held over 51 rallies outside their office. At every ...; Created on 04 June 2018
38. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. ...; Created on 10 May 2018
39. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... In late April, environmental organisations held in the Guatemalan capital the Second Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance against Mining, which concluded with the requirement that the governments ...; Created on 09 May 2018
40. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining -ACAFREMIN-, met in Guatemala City on April 26 and 27 of this year, in order to analyze "the state of the right to prior, free and informed consultation ...; Created on 08 May 2018

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