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1. 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
2. STATEMENT ON THE INCURSION OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA: (Media Releases); ... of the Central American territory, as such we express to the national and international public opinion. Extractive industries are transnational corporations working in collusion with governments and ...; Created on 18 December 2013
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... would be a disaster for the nation’s already contaminated water supply. Unlike many Latin American countries that court extractive investments from transnational companies, El Salvador has no metal mining ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...; Created on 03 April 2023
5. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... have, for decades, been calling for justice." "The current government, however, has chosen to actively uphold decades of impunity," the groups continued. "Rather than investigate or prosecute those responsible ...; Created on 20 January 2023
6. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... a considerable source of inspiration within the religious sectors in Guatemala.” Preparing an EIA for a major extractive project always requires consulting the affected communities, but the lack of ...; Created on 22 September 2022
7. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... government to promote extractive industries, even if this is against the will and welfare of the people. We demand from the Republic of El Salvador states its position on the cross-border mining issue ...; Created on 21 September 2022
8. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... bridge the active participation of members of the MNFM in the presentation of an Amicus Curiae at the ICSID and in numerous international solidarity actions across the world. When the struggle took a violent ...; Created on 29 June 2021
9. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Resistance La Puya condemned the act of intimidation on May 21 in a public statement denouncing the use of police “to protect the economic interests of foreign extractive companies.” In the same communiqué, ...; Created on 07 June 2021
10. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... administration is reducing nature to a commodity—a thing to be consumed, a means to a capitalist end. Reflective of a typically patriarchal, exploitative, and extractive mode of doing business, its mining ...; Created on 02 June 2021
11. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... of the use of the national Police (PNC) to protect the economic interests of foreign extractive companies. We denounce the intimidation by the PNC taking place since 7 o’clock this morning. The Peaceful ...; Created on 23 May 2021
12. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... companies have seen a warm welcome from the Philippine government. “By government policy, the Philippines is wide open to foreign companies, especially the extractive business of mining. The regime of ...; Created on 12 May 2021
13. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of Export Development Canada’s (EDC) services. The crown corporation has provided tens of billions of dollars — $28 billion in 2014 alone — in financing and insurance to the extractive sector, including ...; Created on 07 May 2021
14. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...; Created on 06 May 2021
15. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project: (Mining and Human Rights); Guatemala Network Solidarity Kevo Dell In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro ...; Created on 06 May 2021
16. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... regulations were now in place to boost environmental safeguards. But Greenpeace country director Lea Guerrero said the lifting of the moratorium was "outrageous". "Mining and extractive activities in ...; Created on 05 May 2021
17. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... groups say. Signed April 14 and made public April 15, Executive Order 130 highlights the contribution of the extractives sector in reviving the country’s economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The sector ...; Created on 15 April 2021
18. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Salvador. The authors describe Pac Rim “as one entity operating in its Canadian headquarters, as a Cayman Island shell company, and on the ground in El Salvador.” At that time, there were no mines active ...; Created on 11 April 2021
19. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... their counterparts in Guatemala, Peru, and the Philippines, where mining projects created webs of local corporate leaders who were intertwined with and enriched by the extractive industry. But after the ...; Created on 05 April 2021
20. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... bear kinship with the Salvadoran water defenders are already active in many parts of this country. In Alaska, Native groups linked with conservationists to halt the giant Pebble Mine, which would have ...; Created on 28 March 2021

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