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21. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... at mine sites also raise fears that the virus will spread among local populations. Communities living near mines often suffer from respiratory illness or other health impacts from exposure to noise, toxic ...; Created on 23 July 2020
22. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... their residents now have to worry about investor lawsuits. In Peru, for example, where families are clogging the roads as they flee the country’s crowded cities in fear of the virus, a proposed emergency ...; Created on 23 July 2020
23. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... to generate fear among protesters and to inhibit the exercise of their human rights. " In particular, as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), CEJIL has pointed out, preventive detention is ...; Created on 20 April 2020
24. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... of the 31 criminalized defenders remain illegally detained, the rest, along with their family and friends, continue to be stigmatized and forced to live in a state of fear and anxiety. Despite the ...; Created on 20 April 2020
25. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... mainly in rural, indigenous and Garifuna communities. In Nicaragua, repression against government dissidents includes environmental defenders who have ceased their defense for fear of repression, while ...; Created on 26 December 2019
26. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... environmental permits to various companies, according to environmentalists in the country. The fear of activists is that the new government will grant mining exploration permits, even though there is a ...; Created on 26 December 2019
27. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... a permanent militarization of the region that has caused various local leaders to flee in fear of further persecution. In addition, there have been reports that private security forces have since been ...; Created on 24 October 2019
28. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... killings at the hands of police. The controversial new anti-terror law doesn’t allay fears, either. The law, which barrelled through Congress this year, gives police and military broader powers to go after ...; Created on 04 October 2019
29. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and ministries responsible implementation of the mining ban and the "environmental remediation plan". Fear of a reversal The members of the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining also expressed ...; Created on 18 September 2019
30. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... because of fears that they are contaminated with heavy metals used in the extraction process. “The country’s most important markets flat-out avoid buying our products,” he told IPS from his hometown. ...; Created on 07 May 2019
31. Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala: (Media Releases); ... Jimmy Morales over to the Court’s rulings on mining projects, as well as efforts by the executive branch to put the brakes on corruption investigations involving high level officials. “We fear that the ...; Created on 04 May 2019
32. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... herself for fear of retaliation against those who oppose the mine. These health problems would have their origin in the contamination of water sources, because, although the company is not yet extracting ...; Created on 03 May 2019
33. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... initially by Canadian mining firm, Radius Gold, which eventually sold to US mining firm KCA, seeking to exploit gold and silver reserves in the hills just outside of town. Fearful over the impacts on the ...; Created on 27 August 2018
34. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... have been walled off from their communities. “If the private sector owns water, we would not only fear rising prices, but also pollution and all sorts of abuses, like people who cannot access their well ...; Created on 08 May 2018
35. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on her family, including her three-year-old daughter’s life. But the radio station continued its campaign. “It was such a hard time,” she says, “but instead of people shutting up in fear, they raised ...; Created on 07 May 2018
36. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demands justice in the case of murdered environmentalists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Marisol Miranda: CoLatino Although there is a law against mining, fear is always present. “OceanaGold still owns the El Dorado miming project, and they are only waiting for a change of government for ...; Created on 01 February 2018
37. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Mario Beltrán - Contrapunto Environmental NGOs fear that the approaching electoral season might advance the company´s goals at the expense of the environment. Environmental organizations are worried ...; Created on 14 November 2017
38. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... measures to protect the environment or public health for fear of investor-state lawsuits. Now back to the Trump-related trade issue of the moment, NAFTA: The investor-state provisions in NAFTA don't help ...; Created on 03 March 2017
39. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... San Isidro, in the northern department of Cabañas. Later governments, led since 2009 by the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), have maintained the policy. "Our fear is that the ...; Created on 05 January 2017
40. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... fear and trauma generated by the murders. This is why we want people to learn from these tragic events, to honor their memory" he said. "The State of El Salvador won the lawsuit before the ICSID, and I ...; Created on 03 January 2017

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