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1. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.” Environment defenders, ...
Created on 24 May 2021
2. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
(Mining and Human Rights)
... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community. “He’s ...
Created on 25 September 2020
3. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer
(Mining and Human Rights)
... project has in mind the use of “surplus water from the Tambo basin in rainy weather.” The company argues that these waters have no agricultural or domestic use and that each year more than 500 million ...
Created on 22 July 2020
4. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek
(Regional News)
Groups call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court Puno, Cochabamba, Washington, Ottawa, September 13th, 2018 PRESS RELEASE More than one hundred ...
Created on 16 September 2018
5. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... are increasingly casting their gaze, as a clear declaration by mining-affected communities that water is more precious than gold.  It was in the northern department of Cabañas, where safe water supplies ...
Created on 26 June 2017
6. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... affection. He was the centerpiece of the most amazing and magical week I can remember in 12 long years of arduous struggle. It was a brief moment in time, more precious than gold. [Andrés McKinley is ...
Created on 26 June 2017
7. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... and Social Development Association (ADES), who was a key leader in the fight against mining for more than 12 years and had recently been sounding the alarm over Bukele’s attempts to re-open the door to ...
Created on 08 April 2023
8. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... searching for new ways to earn revenues “thanks in part to its ill-advised embrace of Bitcoin.” The Salvadoran government invested $150 million of its reserves into cryptocurrency, and it is known that ...
Created on 06 April 2023
9. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... more than 33 years ago during the brutal civil war that claimed 75,000 lives. Prisoners sat on the cement floor of a courtyard at a prison. Their upper bodies are bare, their heads shaved, and they ...
Created on 04 April 2023
10. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Specifically, the water defenders were concerned about mining around the Lempa River Basin, which is one of the principal water sources in the country. It would take more than a decade and several lawsuits ...
Created on 03 April 2023
11. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... on environmentally destructive metal mining. More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to pressure the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against and release five water ...
Created on 20 January 2023
12. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation
(Cerro Blanco)
... and the population.  Fifteen years later, the Ministry received an updated EIA presented by its new owner, Bluestone Resources. The 3545-page update details an open pit rather than a tunnel mining extraction ...
Created on 22 September 2022
13. 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)
... rights of the population of the region. iii. Our support for the population of the municipality of Asunción Mita who have organized to reject this mining project by gathering more than 4 thousand signatures ...
Created on 12 June 2022
14. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people
(Regional News)
... people. In the last five years alone, more than 50 Garífuna men and women have been killed; 30 have been jailed and 32 have a court order, prosecuted for the alleged usurpation of their own ancestral ...
Created on 25 December 2021
15. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...
Created on 23 December 2021
16. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...
Created on 16 December 2021
17. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and access. According to experts, rivers are drying up, the water levels of the nation's most strategic aquifers are falling more than one meter per year, more than 90% of lakes and rivers are polluted ...
Created on 14 December 2021
18. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People
(Mining and Human Rights)
... than 1,000 known suits filed have been brought against governments in Latin America. Disputes with affected communities that are resisting mining operations or seeking remedy for harms are most often at ...
Created on 07 June 2021
19. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine
(Mining and Human Rights)
... hope that the right to self-determination that we have as Xinka Indigenous people will be respected”. It should be emphasized that government has taken more than three years to comply with the Constitutional ...
Created on 26 May 2021
20. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business
(Mining and Human Rights)
... the environment, social governance. Those are the things that shareholders are valuing more today than ever, and I can say we’ve lived that… at the end of the day, it’s your actions and your real world ...
Created on 17 May 2021
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