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1. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer
(Mining and Human Rights)
... surroundings that naturally benefit from the Asana River, and that they would inevitably be affected by the diversion. In this sense, it is necessary to promote studies by independent researchers from ...
Created on 22 July 2020
2. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to deliver the request. Upon arrival they were greeted by the president of the Legislative Assembly and GANA legislator, Guillermo Gallegos, who assured that his party will support the request. They were ...
Created on 09 March 2017
3. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... who were arrested in January.  A lack of evidence behind the allegation that they were involved in a civil war-era kidnapping and murder has raised questions from U.S. officials and the U.N. about the ...
Created on 20 December 2023
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... 30 years ago. Now, like thousands of other prisoners in El Salvador, they are in grave danger of dying or being killed while awaiting an opportunity to prove their innocence. Their families and legal team ...
Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... statement calling on the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against the five water defenders or, at the very least, release them from prison to await their trial. Currently, they are being held ...
Created on 06 April 2023
6. 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
7. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... The water defenders were part of a resistance group fighting the right-wing dictatorship during the war. But they come from Santa Marta, a community founded by displaced people largely considered to be ...
Created on 03 April 2023
8. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Laínez, Teodoro Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were detained in northern El Salvador on January 11. In a case that critics call politically motivated, they are accused of murdering an alleged ...
Created on 20 January 2023
9. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community
(Cerro Blanco)
... of our municipality in the future.  That the mining companies, up to the moment, have not proven to be rational, responsible, or friendly with the environment. They have not respected article 125 of ...
Created on 23 September 2022
10. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation
(Cerro Blanco)
A municipal referendum was held on September 18 in Asunción Mita, Guatemala, that will impact the future of the Cerro Blanco mine.  The question on the ballot aske d people if they were in agreement ...
Created on 22 September 2022
11. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate
(Cerro Blanco)
... of residents in Asunción Mita, department of Jutiapa, Guatemala, held this Sunday, September 18, 2022. The local communities expressed by vote that they did not agree with the installation and operation ...
Created on 21 September 2022
12. 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)
...  To the Regional Authorities and other national and local entities: i. That they implement an honest vigilance of mining activities that bring many environmental, social, cultural, and even economic ...
Created on 12 June 2022
13. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people
(Regional News)
... a state (a government project to create areas subject to a special regime, where investors would be in charge of tax policy, security and conflict resolution). They are actually monarchies because we are ...
Created on 25 December 2021
14. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... urban projects should be considered as industrial and commercial projects, due to their lucrative purpose, as such they should be expressly regulated so that their permits are not prioritized as priority ...
Created on 23 December 2021
15. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... that "at the end of the visit of the IGF consultants, they expected to have a diagnostic of the mining industry in El Salvador and to know the real situation of the resources in order to evaluate the social, ...
Created on 16 December 2021
16. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...
Created on 14 December 2021
17. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... State to implement the law. In particular, the report points to a government´s debt with communities affected by mining: they still face the impacts of acid drainage in abandoned mines, there has not been ...
Created on 29 June 2021
18. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People
(Mining and Human Rights)
... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.” Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...
Created on 07 June 2021
19. Mining is not ‘recovery’
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) in Tampakan, South Cotabato. These developments are disconcerting, for they are the exact opposite of what “recovery” should look like. If there’s anything this pandemic ...
Created on 02 June 2021
20. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... Movement Association, when they dispersed people forming a barricade against the entry of fuel tankers into the operation site of Australian-Canadian mining firm Oceanagold in Nueva Vizcaya. To recall, ...
Created on 24 May 2021
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