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21. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... System, nor the cross-border threats that may impact its basin. It is a law that will privatize water in El Salvador. According to Article 71 of the law, the ASA will authorize the use of water to private ...; Created on 23 December 2021
22. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...; Created on 16 December 2021
23. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.” Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...; Created on 07 June 2021
24. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... but this provincial ordinance is under threat as it is currently being “reviewed” by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, notwithstanding a court decision upholding it as in line with the mandate of the Constitution ...; Created on 02 June 2021
25. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... biggest blows to efforts to preserve natural resources in the country. It was also seen to escalate threats against communities opposing mining projects. In 2019, the Philippines topped the list of nations ...; Created on 27 May 2021
26. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
27. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... one land defender in January, an armed attack against a Xinka delegate to the consultation process in April, and death threats against others. In April of this year, 3,900+ individuals signed a petition ...; Created on 17 May 2021
28. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects that are environmentally destructive and threaten the livelihoods of surrounding communities. According to ICHRP-Toronto member Angela Asuncion, 60 percent of transnational mines in the Philippines ...; Created on 12 May 2021
29. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
30. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...; Created on 06 May 2021
31. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... disasters. Duterte -- who had previously threatened to shut down the mining sector completely -- is facing growing criticism over his handling of the pandemic that has crippled the economy and thrown ...; Created on 05 May 2021
32. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... assassination. Events lent credibility to their suspicions: In the months after the murder, activists were flooded with death threats and two other mining opponents were gunned down. Despite the brutality ...; Created on 23 April 2021
33. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... organizations around the world publicly denounced transnational mining companies for ignoring the threat of the Covid19 pandemic and continuing to operate normally. The communiqué, based on extensive research, ...; Created on 22 April 2021
34. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... firearms to intimidate them. Residents were beaten and one was shot by OceanaGold security personnel. The report noted that OceanaGold “is largely responsible for the continuing threats to security of ...; Created on 22 April 2021
35. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mining permits in the Philippines. The order is expected to ease the entry of at least 291 existing mining applications, escalating threats to the environment and its defenders, anti-mining and environmental ...; Created on 15 April 2021
36. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...; Created on 28 March 2021
37. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... been under threat from international mining companies for decades, companies that are after El Salvador's gold. But an unlikely alliance came together to stop them. People on opposite sides of the bitter ...; Created on 22 March 2021
38. 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
39. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... decision to interrupt the progress of a large-scale irrigation project. Peru has been threatened with additional cases in relation to a gas-distribution concession, the operation of a port on its southern ...; Created on 21 January 2021
40. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...; Created on 14 January 2021

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