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1. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); Manuel Perez Rocha - Inequality NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle on January 16 as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support. Officially called the United States-Mexico-Canada ...; Created on 03 May 2020
2. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...; Created on 27 November 2013
3. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...; Created on 27 November 2013
4. Congressional Briefing: Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment?: (Background and reports ); ... in El Salvador and Unidad Ecologica de El Salvador, joined experts on investor-state disputes in Washington D.C. for a Congressional briefing organized by Public Citizen and Oxfam in coordination with ...; Created on 04 April 2012
5. 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
6. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Hydrocarbons and Mines, was created with congressional approval in October 2021. And later that year, the country joined the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, ...; Created on 03 April 2023
7. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... doing what’s needed to protect human and environmental rights will welcome this legislation,” said Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress. “Those that aren’t will now be held accountable ...; Created on 21 May 2021
8. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... was declared a national park. The next year, congress reduced the park’s no-development zone to accommodate the mine’s development, following a permit process mired by irregularities. Inversiones Los ...; Created on 06 May 2021
9. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... violent displacement during the civil war. Among the allies the water defenders won over were a legislator from the conservative ARENA party who led a key committee in El Salvador’s Congress, a prosecutor ...; Created on 23 April 2021
10. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the American Rescue Plan, Congress’s next big relief bill will focus on building a green infrastructure — and it can create tens of thousands of good, dignified union jobs in the process. Movements that ...; Created on 28 March 2021
11. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... important that the member of the ARENA delegation in Congress — which was the largest party represented in Congress — attended one of the many workshops that the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining ...; Created on 22 March 2021
12. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... - Mauricio Oliva, President of the Congress of the Republic secretariacnhn@gmail.com - Rolando Argueta, President of the Supreme Court of Justice arguetarolando1@yahoo.com presidencia@poderjudicial.gob.hn ...; Created on 14 March 2021
13. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Honduran Congress cut 217 hectares from the core zone of the park from which construction was prohibited. On January 28, 2014, the first licence was granted to Emco Mining for their planned open-pit iron ...; Created on 22 February 2021
14. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... each ZEDE government. The CAMP is a 12 to 21-person body that was appointed by President Hernández and ratified by Congress in 2014. It is subject to little oversight and fills its own vacancies. According ...; Created on 15 February 2021
15. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... alongside other imprisoned land and human rights defenders around the world. His cause was also taken up by many on the left in Peru. In 2018, now-President of Congress Mirtha Vásquez of the socialist ...; Created on 21 January 2021
16. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... she served as an international economist in the US Treasury Department, in the US Congress, and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. John Cavanagh is Director of the Washington-based Institute ...; Created on 14 January 2021
17. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Salvadoran Congress approved, in March 2017, a law that prohibited metal mining, the only regulation of its kind in the world. With this law, no company can extract gold, silver, copper, or other metallic ...; Created on 05 January 2021
18. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mountain was declared a National Park by Congress, mandating protection of water sources which serve more than 42,000 people, including the Guapinol river. Yet the following year, Congress reduced the ...; Created on 07 October 2020
19. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of people in the Bajo Aguan.” Owned by one of the country’s most powerful couples, Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, Pinares Investments enjoys the strong support of the Honduran Congress, controlled by President ...; Created on 25 September 2020
20. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... territories.” Some of the Guapinol human rights defenders pictured in court in Honduras. RISK FROM COVID 19 At the end of April 2020, the National Congress of Honduras reformed the Code of Criminal ...; Created on 01 September 2020

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