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1. 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
2. Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... as a “kangaroo court” favoring the interests of corporations over states and Indigenous communities and environmental groups. ------ Republished from: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pressure-Grows-on-Mining-Giant-to-Pay-8-Million-to-El-Salvador-20170221-0017.html ...; Created on 05 March 2017
3. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By Sebastian Rosemont - Photo: Genia Yatsenko Pressure continues to mount on Salvadoran legislators to ban metal mining in El Salvador. On February 7th, mayors from the Department of Chalatenango, accompanied ...; Created on 13 February 2017
4. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); by: P. Cabezas As the February 2nd presidential elections in El Salvador quickly approach, environmental activists are stepping up pressure on candidates to address issues relating to the country`s precarious ...; Created on 20 January 2014
5. Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General to Ensure Justice: (Mining and Human Rights); Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General for Justice On April 25th the civil society organizations and communities that make up the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa in Spanish) ...; Created on 26 April 2012
6. The Mesa’s Public Pressure Campaign Heats Up: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); The Mesa’s Elections Campaign Heats Up With the midterm elections less than a month away the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (the Mesa in Spanish) has increased their pressure ...; Created on 14 February 2012
7. The Mesa Pressures Candidates, Dec 2011: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... environmental coalitions, has publicly announced its new campaign to pressure decision makers. It will be calling on voters not to vote for candidates who don’t support and promote the anti-mining ban ...; Created on 14 February 2012
8. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miriam Miranda highlights that the award to OFRANEH comes at a time when pressure from the Honduran government is increasing to deprive indigenous and black peoples of their territories; a moment in which ...; Created on 25 December 2021
9. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... ban by prohibiting all large-scale metalliferous mining activity at every stage including prospection and exploration, not only exploitation. However, under increasing pressure from industry, the Chubut ...; Created on 17 May 2021
10. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Since the infamous vote, human rights defenders have continued the call for legally binding regulations on the sector. Pressure from civil society eventually produced a commitment from the Justin Trudeau ...; Created on 12 May 2021
11. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... asylum applications. It should pressure the Honduran government to enable free, prior and informed consent, and call for free and fair elections. Until then, the international community should suspend ...; Created on 06 May 2021
12. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... written into international trade deals. Foreign companies used these courts to pressure governments into voiding criminal convictions against their executives for offenses including embezzlement, fraud, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
13. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... growing international pressure over the climate crisis. The company is looking to get on the energy transition bandwagon. In February 2021, its outgoing CEO, Ivan Glasenberg, said that copper demand will ...; Created on 22 April 2021
14. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... destroyed one of the country’s largest salmon fisheries. In Arizona, activists successfully pressured the Biden administration to more carefully evaluate a proposed giant, water-depleting copper mine on ...; Created on 28 March 2021
15. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... to know if there were problems. The mine also failed to establish limits on pressure and flow in an air pollution control device. The pressure and flow limits are important to determine if an air pollution ...; Created on 12 February 2021
16. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... movement in Canada must also start to look more critically at issues of resource extraction, and pressure our political leaders to take the steps toward a more sustainable and equitable role in the world ...; Created on 21 January 2021
17. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... increase in claims. This can manifest itself in various ways, such as through increased tax pressures, amended contract terms, a hostile regulatory environment, political instability, government interference ...; Created on 06 January 2021
18. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... But in 2013, the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador pressured for a new round of privatizations through a Public Private Partnership Law, which the U.S. required El Salvador to adopt in order to receive $277 ...; Created on 01 December 2020
19. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... to pressure the company for greater benefits. On September 4, the day after the encampment was set up, the company released a communiqué referring to it as an “illegal road blockade.” Such statements ...; Created on 28 November 2020
20. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... and despite this, they pressured the government to repress us. That’s exactly what happened on May 23, 2014 and how they managed to operate for two years,” remarks Álvaro Sandoval, member of the Peaceful ...; Created on 24 August 2020

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