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1. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); Bulatlat Adam Ang Oceanagold’s mining operations in Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya have dried up the sources of water, polluted the environment and crippled the livelihood of farmers. “We won’t be ...; Created on 24 May 2021
2. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
3. 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
4. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... which intends to continue with the "Cerro Blanco" project by changing the methodology of underground tunnel mining for open pit mining which is a method much more destructive and causes permanent and irreversible ...; Created on 12 June 2022
5. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... of the month came and the workers were paid almost nothing because a large part of their salary was owed to the stores that belonged to the same company that hired them. It was in these plantations that ...; Created on 25 December 2021
6. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of Apopa, Tonacatepeque, Cuscatancingo, Soyapango, Ilopango and San Martín. This Law does not resolve these injustices, because its content does not regulate ANDA´s operations, it does not oblige them ...; Created on 23 December 2021
7. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... for mining and quarry exploration proposals. These latest events cause alarm because they seem aimed at allowing activities related to metal mining in the country. In addition, these actions of the government ...; Created on 16 December 2021
8. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... against metal mining in the country. After learning that metal mining in neighboring countries had caused environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity and sources of water, and more importantly, ...; Created on 29 June 2021
9. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the proposal supported and elaborated by the Catholic Church and environmental organizations. "We hope that it will not remain in the garbage, because it is something highly developed, so that people ...; Created on 15 June 2021
10. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations ...; Created on 07 June 2021
11. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... has taught us, it is that our environmental and human health are inseparable, and our abuse of nature will come to haunt us, not least in the form of viral outbreaks caused by our exploitation of animals, ...; Created on 02 June 2021
12. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Despite this, the Xinka people have not given up. The vindication of our rights has not been easy because public officials of four previous governments have denied their existence, in order to justify ...; Created on 26 May 2021
13. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... caused by a judicial decision. However, the license continues to be suspended.” Brief timeline and context In March 2012 residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La ...; Created on 22 May 2021
14. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... help respond to the widespread and egregious abuses linked to Canadian companies including forced labour, sexual violence, and murder.” Under the CNCA’s proposed law, if a company causes harm or fails ...; Created on 21 May 2021
15. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that the expansion caused. Over forty families were uprooted and moved to a “Residential Unit” that adjoins the mine site, where the company exercises near complete control over daily life. On top of these ...; Created on 17 May 2021
16. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... more accurately describes Canada – specifically Toronto – as “the belly of the beast.” It is the epicentre of the global mining industry, precisely because the systemic violence that plagues the industry ...; Created on 12 May 2021
17. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... objectivity and independence, and under all the criteria studied, it found that the detention of the eight environmental defenders is arbitrary for three reasons: 1. First, because there is no legal ...; Created on 11 May 2021
18. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... almost any country in the Global South, from Papua New Guinea to Ghana, Ecuador to the Philippines, and you will find a Canadian-run mine that has caused environmental devastation or been the scene of ...; Created on 07 May 2021
19. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... in Honduras you are criminalized for defending nature. But we do believe that water cannot be negotiated, because water is life,” Reynaldo Dominguez, one of the Guapinol defenders, told me in a recent ...; Created on 06 May 2021
20. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... People's Network for the Environment said the decision was "a disaster upon disaster because the Mining Act of 1995 is still in place." "We cannot allow this deluge of destructive large-scale mining when ...; Created on 05 May 2021

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