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1. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ACAFREMIN Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...; Created on 26 December 2019
2. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Philippines to launch the Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement, a national campaign to protect the environment, natural resources, and people’s rights in the nationally significant watershed and biodiverse province ...; Created on 16 September 2019
3. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and social organizations demanded compliance. The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, the Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change and Corporations (MOVIAC), the Association of Participative ...; Created on 15 February 2017
4. Mega projects unite social movements from Honduras and El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fight against mining, monoculture and the protection of water and ecosystems. Abel Lara, coordinator of the October 12 - Popular Resistance Movement of El Salvador, said that the meeting of different ...; Created on 17 September 2016
5. Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of hundreds of civil society organizations and social movements for the resolution. In the words of the Ecuadorean Ambassador, “we have to thank the more than 500 civil society organizations that formed ...; Created on 26 June 2014
6. Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement: (Mining and Human Rights); Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement After months of waiting for the Salvadoran central government to release its mining sector Strategic Environmental Assessment, the Vice-Minister ...; Created on 24 May 2012
7. Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement Responds: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement Responds Monday April 30, Pacific Rim announced in a press release on MarketWatch that the company had been informed by the ICSID that ...; Created on 30 April 2012
8. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miriam Miranda became who she is today. Since she was a teenager, Miranda participated in student and social movements; a passionate reader that was a member of the Visitación Padilla Women's Movement, ...; Created on 25 December 2021
9. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of the communities that led to the acts of violence and assassination of 5 environmentalists in Cabañas and the strategies these communities utilized to forge a robust national and international movement ...; Created on 29 June 2021
10. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Movement Association, when they dispersed people forming a barricade against the entry of fuel tankers into the operation site of Australian-Canadian mining firm Oceanagold in Nueva Vizcaya. To recall, ...; Created on 24 May 2021
11. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are located in ancestral lands. Indigenous resistance to mining has garnered a violent response from state-sponsored forces. “Government responses on mining resistance movements have led to extrajudicial ...; Created on 12 May 2021
12. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to respect any existing commitments…” While such community activities may seem innocuous to an outside observer, the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala and the peaceful resistance movement has decried the ...; Created on 12 May 2021
13. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... is arbitrary as it constitutes a reprisal for the defenders' legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of movement, equality before the law, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, ...; Created on 11 May 2021
14. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fought to protect local water resources against foreign mining companies. Broad and Cavanagh, a wife-and-husband team of development scholars who joined in the water defenders’ movement, detail the hardships, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
15. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021). Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...; Created on 11 April 2021
16. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... movements have lost similar battles all over the world, so what else was critical to their achievement? One factor was La Mesa’s education campaigns, which creatively spread the word on the science of ...; Created on 05 April 2021
17. 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
18. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... them against mining. They called themselves pro-water. Their whole movement was for saving the water of El Salvador. Now, that was part of what was effective. Marco Werman: So the book recounts two victories ...; Created on 22 March 2021
19. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... introduced himself as follows: “I’m Jeremias & I’m 64 years old. I’m a father and a member of a peasant enterprise of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA). I have been in jail since December ...; Created on 22 February 2021
20. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... what pushing back against Canadian corporate interests can do. In 2011, Aduviri, an Indigenous Aymara leader from Peru’s Puno region, helped lead a protest movement against a silver mine in the region ...; Created on 21 January 2021

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