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1. The Economics of Climate Change in Central America: Summary 2009: (General Environment Backrounders); UKaid 2009 The evidence is clear that greenhouse gases from anthropogenic activities are causing dramatic changes in the global climate. Central America is very vulnerable to these changes because of ...; Created on 23 April 2016
2. Mesa Press Release - May 23, 2009: (Media Releases); Public Private Partnerships open the possibility of mining in El Salvador We are concerned that the PPP law opens the door for approval of mining projects in the northern region of the country. ...; Created on 05 June 2013
3. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... crusade to criminalize, persecute, and demobilize its political opponents," adds the statement, spearheaded by the U.S.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)—which in 2009 honored the National Roundtabl ...; Created on 20 January 2023
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); Thelma Gómez Durán | Mongabay * As of the 2009 coup, Honduras became a perfect political laboratory to destroy the institutions, says Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... our history… Reaching this moment was a very difficult task… [spanning] four government administrations. Since 2009, we have been protesting and demanding the right to consultation, but unfortunately previous ...; Created on 26 May 2021
6. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... Honduras is the deadliest place in the world for environmental defenders. Hundreds of them have been killed since 2009, including the Indigenous environmental leader Berta Càceres, who was assassinated ...; Created on 06 May 2021
7. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In June 2009, the community leader disappeared without a trace. Two weeks later, Rivera’s body was found at the bottom of a well, tortured beyond recognition. Three gang members were convicted of the murder. ...; Created on 23 April 2021
8. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mine include the violent dispersal of protesters in 2009 and 2020. The UN High Commission for Human Rights is concerned. It said that last year around 100 police forcibly dispersed some 30 indigenous and ...; Created on 22 April 2021
9. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... this book is the brutal 2009 abduction, torture, and murder of Marcelo Rivera. The first sentence of The Water Defenders reads, “In late June 2009, the two of us received deeply disturbing news: Marcelo ...; Created on 11 April 2021
10. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... economist Paul Romer, currently disassociated from the project, and Honduran politicians from the National Party proposed the zones shortly after the 2009 military coup, which made the country a ripe location ...; Created on 15 February 2021
11. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Santa Cruz, and author of The Long Honduran Night THE AUTHORS Robin Broad and John Cavanagh are a husband and wife team who have been involved in the Salvadoran gold mining saga since 2009. Robin ...; Created on 14 January 2021
12. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... prison.” Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries in the world to defend natural resources and land rights after the 2009 coup ushered in an autocratic pro-business government – which remains ...; Created on 07 October 2020
13. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... fueled by foreign investors and the government. Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries in the world for Black and Indigenous land and water defenders after the 2009 U.S.-backed coup there. ...; Created on 17 August 2020
14. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); P. Cabezas On July 11th, environmental justice activists in El Salvador commemorated the 11th anniversary of the 2009 assassination of Marcelo Rivera, a community cultural activist and water defender ...; Created on 15 July 2020
15. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... 2009 and 2018. The inhabitants of the communities near the river have, overtime, decreased the consumption of water from the lake. However, many do not have an alternative. This is the case of Ángela ...; Created on 21 April 2020
16. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... is linked to the powerful Facusse family. The authors reviewed recent historical and political events in Honduras, with a particular focus on the last decade and found that the 2009 coup d'état and ...; Created on 20 April 2020
17. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... ago, near the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala in Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mariano Abarca was shot dead in broad daylight outside of his family restaurant. It was November 27, 2009 and Mariano had ...; Created on 26 December 2019
18. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... unleashed by Pacific Rim Mining in 2009. During this event, dozens of men and women attended to celebrate the legacy of the leaders who led the struggle against mining companies in the country, and paid ...; Created on 26 December 2019
19. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and murdered in June 2009; Dora Sorto, murdered on December 26, and Ramiro Rivera, murdered on December 20, 2009. “On repeated occasions we have organized different activities and presented requests ...; Created on 26 December 2019
20. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... that from 2009 to 2013, more than 123 people had been assassinated and six had been disappeared as a result of land related conflicts. But conflict is not restricted to the expansion of large monocrop ...; Created on 24 October 2019

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