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1. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... Honduras - found that the Honduras government is responsible for the systematic violation of the human rights of communities in Tocoa, department of Colon. These communities are affected by the impacts ...; Created on 20 April 2020
2. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); CRITERIO Tegucigalpa - The town hall through which the municipal corporation of Tocoa declared its territory, located in the department of Colon, free of mining activity, caused the residents' frustration ...; Created on 26 December 2019
3. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); The Conversation Giada Ferrucci Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
4. 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
5. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... of Tocoa. The plant, which will melt iron with carbon or coke to form compound pellets -- part of the steelmaking process -- is 99.6% owned by Inversiones Ecotek S.A. de C.V., a company created in 2017 ...; Created on 28 November 2020
6. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Martínez Díaz - are members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa. They are imprisoned for their participation in a peaceful protest camp against a mining company, whose ...; Created on 29 September 2020
7. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... past two years, 31 people from the municipality of Tocoa, on the lush north shore of Honduras, have faced criminal prosecution as a result of their opposition to an iron ore mining project in the Botaderos ...; Created on 25 September 2020
8. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... of Tocoa, in Honduras, reported in a press conference that the Court of Appeals, in the department of Francisco Morazán, overturned the ruling that dismissed charges against environmental defenders Juan ...; Created on 20 August 2020
9. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
10. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... such as Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Honduras. More precisely, in Honduras, eight people who oppose an opencast iron ore mine in the municipality of Tocoa have been in prison since September 2019 on ...; Created on 09 August 2020
11. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... defender member of COPA, Leonel George, also denounced that on April 8, 14 and 25, slanderous articles on his work were published on the Facebook page, 'La Voz de Tocoa y Tocoa Exclusivas'. Previously, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
12. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... to their health and lives. These men have been held in prison since September 2019 on false accusations for their resistance to an open-pit iron-ore mine in the municipality of Tocoa, owned by Honduran ...; Created on 23 July 2020
13. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... detention. The process faced by the defenders resulted from a series of peaceful demonstrations carried out in the municipality of Tocoa, Colón, in order to stop the operations of the Los Pinares mining ...; Created on 20 April 2020
14. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... known group of environmental activists from Tocoa, a remote city in the northern Atlantic coast of Honduras, were awarded the prestigious Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award in a packed ceremony held in ...; Created on 24 October 2019
15. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Martínez Díaz - are members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa. They are imprisoned for their participation in a peaceful protest camp against a mining company, whose ...; Created on 29 September 2020
16. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the municipality of Tocoa, on the lush north shore of Honduras, have faced criminal prosecution as a result of their opposition to an iron ore mining project in the Botaderos Mount “Carlos Escaleras” National ...; Created on 25 September 2020

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