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1. WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Gabriel Labrador- Equal Times The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company’s application ...; Created on 18 April 2015
2. Governments of Guatemala and El Salvador forced to respond to community concerns regarding the Cerro Blanco mining project: (Cerro Blanco); San Salvador, Feb. 26th, 2013 Over two hundred Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador, La Mesa, held a rally this morning in front of the Guatemalan Embassy in San ...; Created on 28 February 2013
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... territories. In addition, several Garífuna communities are experiencing forced displacement. One of them is Triunfo de la Cruz, where 400 families left the community in 2019, and in July 2020, during ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... has forced local communities to assume water supply by themselves, with the support of NGOs and international aid. Although the Law recognizes community water systems in a nominal way, it does not provide ...; Created on 23 December 2021
5. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... damage was done. KCA operated the El Tambor mine for nearly two years until the courts forced its closure. Community members active in the resistance to KCA’s mining project faced other acts of physical ...; Created on 07 June 2021
6. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
7. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... help respond to the widespread and egregious abuses linked to Canadian companies including forced labour, sexual violence, and murder.” Under the CNCA’s proposed law, if a company causes harm or fails ...; Created on 21 May 2021
8. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalization, social media attacks and constant threats. Several residents have been forced to flee Honduras to escape criminal persecution. Meanwhile, the state uses corruption and police repression ...; Created on 06 May 2021
9. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... severe human rights violations, reinforced by harmful rhetoric from high-level officials against human rights organizations, lawyers, political, judicial actors, journalists, trade unionists, and religious ...; Created on 25 February 2021
10. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Zone administrators tout this Agreement as a codification of the “social contract” assumed between citizens and governments in the modern nation-state.Such cohesion-by-design is also reinforced by an ...; Created on 15 February 2021
11. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Salvadoran government announced a mandatory home quarantine that ended in mid-June. The measure forced the inhabitants to remain locked in their homes and, in those cases in when being out was not ...; Created on 05 January 2021
12. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... forced evacuation and closure of indigenous Lumada schools. Indigenous elders and vocal anti-mining leaders, such as Domingo Choc Che from Guatemala and Bae Milda Ansabo from Mindanao, suffered brutal ...; Created on 17 December 2020
13. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... critical, complaints of mismanagement also rose, which forced Bukele’s government to remove ANDA president Frederick Benitez. Despite his high-visibility mismanagement, Bukele ended up promoting Benitez ...; Created on 01 December 2020
14. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... The community began to suspect mismanagement of funds. During the last nine years, the community has also experienced significant increases in violence and extortion, a forced displacement of half the ...; Created on 28 November 2020
15. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... to the El Tambor gold mine. When unwavering community resistance again forced a halt in operations, the company filed a claim in Guatemalan courts complaining the government had failed to protect its investments. ...; Created on 21 October 2020
16. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in March 2016 after suffering years of threats and harassment linked to her opposition to an internationally funded dam. More recently, the Guapinol case and the forced disappearance of land defenders ...; Created on 07 October 2020
17. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... creating as many obstacles as possible to avoid complying with the IACHR judgment,” says Naama López, a Honduran lawyer and human rights activist. “The deaths and forced disappearances of these leaders ...; Created on 03 September 2020
18. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... men who were reportedly wearing police uniforms and forced them into three unmarked vehicles at gunpoint. This was the latest attack against the Garífuna community as they defend their territory from destructive ...; Created on 17 August 2020
19. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... of the Covid-19 pandemic, the mining company instead intensified mining activities. CGN-PRONICO forced workers to complete strenuous 24-hour days that increase the risk of contagion. As a consequence of ...; Created on 12 June 2020
20. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... but many, like Angela, continue to use its waters for bathing and laundry. Water pollution due to heavy metals forced some inhabitants of the areas bordering Guatemala to search for water in nearby communities. ...; Created on 21 April 2020

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