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21. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); SIERRA CLUB John Gibler In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metal mining. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh present the story of the social struggles and legal battles behind ...; Created on 11 April 2021
22. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Nation Robin Broad and John Cavanagh In March 2017, people from poorer communities across El Salvador stood up to corporate power and convinced their legislature to make their country the first ...; Created on 05 April 2021
23. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... dealing with loud noises from the mine that keep people up at night, Estridge said. “We’re on land that has been owned by our family for over 100 years in this area, and we were here first,’’ she said, ...; Created on 02 April 2021
24. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... environmental study says. Additionally, the company for the first time plans to dig an underground mine that would be up to 1,314 feet below the surface. OceanaGold officials said they run an environmentally ...; Created on 30 March 2021
25. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... first-hand about abuses by the same mining company, OceanaGold, in his province. Against extraordinary opposition, these communities convinced their government in 2017 to become the first in the world ...; Created on 28 March 2021
26. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... spectrum? Luis Parada: Marcelo Rivera was the first activist that sounded the alarm about the danger of metallic mining in the province of Cabañas, where he was from. And he's the one that started educating ...; Created on 22 March 2021
27. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... defenders and for exercising their legitimate rights. Furthermore, it noted that there is no reason to prosecute them in the first place. The Working Group emphasized that they should be released and redressed ...; Created on 14 March 2021
28. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Honduran Congress cut 217 hectares from the core zone of the park from which construction was prohibited. On January 28, 2014, the first licence was granted to Emco Mining for their planned open-pit iron ...; Created on 22 February 2021
29. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of Honduran sovereignty or were simply a new form of democratic local government. The constitutional charter of Honduras’ first ZEDE, Próspera, along with its extensive code of rules, was made public at ...; Created on 15 February 2021
30. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... Colombia and Mexico. Based on public notices of intent and speculations surrounding current political developments, this wave is likely to continue in 2021. Peru. The first Investor-State case filed ...; Created on 21 January 2021
31. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... we first briefly explain what protection under an investment treaty involves before analysing the rise of investment claims in the mining sector in 2020 and its likely continued rise in 2021 and beyond. ...; Created on 06 January 2021
32. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to make the first eras (blocks of land separated with living barriers) and we started selling and we liked it”, said Juan. Juan explains that they were interested in organic agricultural production but ...; Created on 05 January 2021
33. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... This Saturday, the judge Zoe Guifarro, of the Sectional Court of First Instance in Tocoa, department of Colón, ruled out the review of the measures requested by the legal representatives of the defenders. ...; Created on 28 December 2020
34. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Works were charged with the distribution of potable water. Social movements succeeded in protecting water resources from the wave of deep privatization in the 1990s and in the first decade of the 2000s. ...; Created on 01 December 2020
35. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... from the manager designated to respond to their concerns. The community first sought resolution through written correspondence and meetings. In a July 31 letter, the community appealed directly to the ...; Created on 28 November 2020
36. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them. First, they resort to repression. Then, if that fails, they sue governments in international tribunals — which ...; Created on 21 October 2020
37. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... uniforms, sowing fear in the community. They first arrived at the home of Alberth Centeno’s father and physically harassed him, demanding that he lead them to his son’s house, where they pulled Centeno ...; Created on 03 September 2020
38. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... warrants for the arrest of 31 members of the Guapinol community. They were charged with offences including damaging property, false imprisonment, theft, aggravated arson and unlawful association. A first ...; Created on 01 September 2020
39. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... conductor because it does not rust like other metals. "Apple released a few years ago the Apple Watch, a smartwatch that was 18 carats. In its first edition, a million copies were manufactured, which sold ...; Created on 09 August 2020
40. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... country for land and environmental defenders for the first time in this time period, with 157 defenders murdered largely by suspected government armed forces—a number 36 percent larger than the total cases ...; Created on 25 July 2020

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