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21. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... company discharged 9.2 micrograms per liter of cyanide in December 2020, but the monthly permit limit is 5.2 micrograms per liter. Cyanide, used to separate gold from ore, can cause convulsions, respiratory ...; Created on 30 March 2021
22. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marco Werman spoke with attorney Luis Parada, who led El Salvador’s defense team in a mining lawsuit at the World Bank, and Robin Broad, a co-author of the book, "The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People ...; Created on 22 March 2021
23. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); Guapinol Resiste On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders. In its resolution ...; Created on 14 March 2021
24. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
25. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has established by way of the Próspera charter within the parameters of autonomy provided to them in the ZEDE law. Implications of the Próspera governance system include an erosion of popular sovereignty, ...; Created on 15 February 2021
26. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... Mine, owned by the Australian-company OceanaGold, is an open-pit digging operation and one of the largest gold mines in the eastern United States, comparable in scale to some western U.S. mines.. Located ...; Created on 12 February 2021
27. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the Great Lakes, home to a fifth of the world’s water, is a parallel struggle, and we are inspired by the people from the south—the Eagle and the Condor meet again. Water protectors are the heroes of ...; Created on 14 January 2021
28. Vizcaya gov still opposes Didipio: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... We believe that the protection of the environment is more paramount than the interest of OGPI,” said Padilla in a text message. “No less than President Duterte expressed this concern when he visited ...; Created on 08 January 2021
29. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... In 2014, the Association for Economic and Social Development (Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico y Social, ADES in its Spanish acronym), a community organization located in Cabañas, began promoting ...; Created on 05 January 2021
30. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the community suffered air and water pollution as well as damages to the forests, forsaking the locals’ livelihood and health. In a statement, local environmental group Alyansa ng Novo Vizcayano para ...; Created on 07 October 2020
31. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... also handed themselves in a few months later, but paradoxically, the judge issued a pre-trial detention order. No evidence of the alleged crimes having taken place was presented, not to mention evidence ...; Created on 01 September 2020
32. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... cases refused to suspend the proceedings. Water Colombia, Honduras, Paraguay and Argentina have adopted measures that provide direct support to water service users, such as making it unlawful to cut ...; Created on 01 September 2020
33. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... and progressive movements in Central America to generate dialogues and unify criteria of resistance against the emerging “normality”. #Guapinolresiste #libertadparaGuapinol #AmasrepresionMaslucha -------------------------------------- ...; Created on 20 August 2020
34. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... to the detriment of Santos Corea. In relation to hearings that took place in March 2019 of a separate group of water defenders, the Appeals Court revoked the definitive dismissal of the case that had been ...; Created on 18 August 2020
35. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... month. MIRIAM MIRANDA: [translated] What we feel as an organization is that something similar to the Berta Cáceres case is going to repeat itself, where the government is going to parade a group of people ...; Created on 17 August 2020
36. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... with their families. Those who come from outside live in a separate house but they still live in the communities. A significant proportion of the workers are asymptomatic. The problem is that the virus ...; Created on 09 August 2020
37. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... rendering security measures in his favor ordered by the IAHRC inadequate to guarantee his life. Hehas been subject to surveillance and harassment by the paramilitary group La Confianza; on multiple occasions ...; Created on 31 July 2020
38. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... policymakers now have to worry that their policy responses could make them the target of lawsuits. A separate legal system In fact, law firms already seem to be salivating over the potential to profit ...; Created on 23 July 2020
39. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the ground to be stored as groundwater and then emerge in springs, rivers or the sea.“ What this paragraph describes is the natural process of interactions between nature and living beings, a relationship ...; Created on 22 July 2020
40. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... justice and reparations for all the martyrs. We know the death of Marcelo and later Ramiro and Dora was important to inspire our struggle, but we would have liked to achieve our victories against the mining ...; Created on 15 July 2020

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