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1. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved: (Background and reports ); Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze. 49 applications for metal ...; Created on 07 January 2016
2. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miranda grew up in a Garifuna family that migrated from their community in Santa Fe, Colón, to live and work in a banana field. In those plantations, she saw how people were treated like slaves: the end ...; Created on 25 December 2021
3. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general. In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...; Created on 16 December 2021
4. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of directors of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), were recently in the country to “promote debate on mining for sustainable development”, revealing a clear intention that threatens the interests ...; Created on 14 December 2021
5. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... damages to human health, organizations in the country sought to build national alliances with universities, NGOs and the church to counter the deceit (jobs and development) that companies were utilizing ...; Created on 29 June 2021
6. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); Minería Panamericana Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher ...; Created on 08 June 2021
7. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... KCA’s assets. May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya. The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...; Created on 07 June 2021
8. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Meanwhile, House Bill 6450, or the Open Pit Mining Ban bill, aims to impose a moratorium on the open pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country. Both bills were introduced ...; Created on 27 May 2021
9. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Silver (PAS), current owners of the Escobal mining project were present. Also in attendance were the 59 authorities accredited to represent the Xinka People of Guatemala in the consultation process. The ...; Created on 26 May 2021
10. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... catastrophe that would fuel violations of socio-economic rights,” said Hicap. Since President Duterte came into office, at least 124 Filipino environment defenders were subjected to red-tagging and criminalization, ...; Created on 24 May 2021
11. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... struggle, the communities in resistance to the mine were violently evicted by the police. By February 2016, the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya won a Guatemalan Supreme Court ruling that provisionally ...; Created on 22 May 2021
12. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...; Created on 17 May 2021
13. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... He moved to Canada in 2007 as a political refugee after he and his family were violently attacked in response to his activism. The ambush resulted in his wife’s death, and left Claver and his daughter ...; Created on 12 May 2021
14. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... basis for having detained the defenders and even less so for continuing to detain them. The group took into account that the charges initially filed against the defenders were dismissed for lack of evidence, ...; Created on 11 May 2021
15. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The women first brought the suit to the Superior Court of Ontario in 2011. The Intercept recently published a damning article drawing on internal corporate documents that were released because of this ...; Created on 07 May 2021
16. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... the committee members were nominated for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded annually by the European Union. Yet, in Honduras, these same activists are victims of defamation campaigns, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
17. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... regulations were now in place to boost environmental safeguards. But Greenpeace country director Lea Guerrero said the lifting of the moratorium was "outrageous". "Mining and extractive activities in ...; Created on 05 May 2021
18. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... were also impacted. The first round of permanent layoff came more than a year after FTAA between OceanaGold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), OceanaGold’s local subsidiary, and the Philippine government expired. ...; Created on 05 May 2021
19. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...; Created on 23 April 2021
20. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...; Created on 22 April 2021

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