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1. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); Bulatlat Adam Ang Oceanagold’s mining operations in Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya have dried up the sources of water, polluted the environment and crippled the livelihood of farmers. “We won’t be ...; Created on 24 May 2021
2. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
3. Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement: (Mining and Human Rights); Recent Statements Cause Alarm for the Anti-Mining Movement After months of waiting for the Salvadoran central government to release its mining sector Strategic Environmental Assessment, the Vice-Minister ...; Created on 24 May 2012
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... are not able to denounce the case publicly because the judge has imposed a rare gag order. These arbitrary arrests are deeply concerning as they violate both El Salvador’s internationally recognized Peace ...; Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... population, most long-term facilities are full. The defense lawyers also believe that, because the case is attracting international attention, no facilities want to take them. The failure of Bukele’s ...; Created on 06 April 2023
6. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Dreams. Cavanagh, who co-authored with Robin Broad The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, stressed that Bukele "is desperate for revenues" because he "has so mismanaged ...; Created on 20 January 2023
7. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... - which involves the suspension of various constitutional rights-, but in this case, it should not apply because those charged have no relationships with gangs. In view of these events, the undersigned ...; Created on 13 January 2023
8. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... That we are not surprised by the statement published on September 19, because the people of Asunción Mita know which side the government is on. The government is using the law not to protect its people ...; Created on 23 September 2022
9. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... are important because they make it possible to strengthen local democracy, promote transparency in the public administration, and are tools for citizens to exercise their democratic rights. While Bluestone ...; Created on 22 September 2022
10. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... to the statement, the Cerro Blanco mine "has caused contamination in the Ostúa-Guija-Lempa basin, putting at risk" the population of the three countries, and also in the so-called Trifinio region "it has ...; Created on 12 June 2022
11. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... to the statement, the Cerro Blanco mine "has caused contamination in the Ostúa-Guija-Lempa basin, putting at risk" the population of the three countries, and also in the so-called Trifinio region "it has ...; Created on 12 June 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); ... which intends to continue with the "Cerro Blanco" project by changing the methodology of underground tunnel mining for open pit mining which is a method much more destructive and causes permanent and irreversible ...; Created on 12 June 2022
13. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... of the month came and the workers were paid almost nothing because a large part of their salary was owed to the stores that belonged to the same company that hired them. It was in these plantations that ...; Created on 25 December 2021
14. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of Apopa, Tonacatepeque, Cuscatancingo, Soyapango, Ilopango and San Martín. This Law does not resolve these injustices, because its content does not regulate ANDA´s operations, it does not oblige them ...; Created on 23 December 2021
15. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... for mining and quarry exploration proposals. These latest events cause alarm because they seem aimed at allowing activities related to metal mining in the country. In addition, these actions of the government ...; Created on 16 December 2021
16. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... against metal mining in the country. After learning that metal mining in neighboring countries had caused environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity and sources of water, and more importantly, ...; Created on 29 June 2021
17. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the proposal supported and elaborated by the Catholic Church and environmental organizations. "We hope that it will not remain in the garbage, because it is something highly developed, so that people ...; Created on 15 June 2021
18. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations ...; Created on 07 June 2021
19. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... has taught us, it is that our environmental and human health are inseparable, and our abuse of nature will come to haunt us, not least in the form of viral outbreaks caused by our exploitation of animals, ...; Created on 02 June 2021
20. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Despite this, the Xinka people have not given up. The vindication of our rights has not been easy because public officials of four previous governments have denied their existence, in order to justify ...; Created on 26 May 2021

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