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1. Protesters back El Salvador for denying gold mining permit: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Stella Dawson, Reuters WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protesters rallied on Monday to demand that a World Bank tribunal reject an international mining company’s claim for $300 million from ...; Created on 17 September 2014
2. Protesters in D.C. ask for halt to gold mining in El Salvador, say it will endanger ecology: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Pamela Constable Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the case ...; Created on 17 September 2014
3. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Initiative, an international investment program to develop infrastructure, energy and mining projects. El Salvador joined in 2019. Anti-mining protesters in El Salvador. (Photo courtesy of Institute ...; Created on 03 April 2023
4. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... At the beginning of March, protesters pelted Argentinian president Alberto Fernández’s bus over his support for mining in Patagonia. Local and indigenous communities in the southernmost part of the hemisphere ...; Created on 07 May 2021
5. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... access to the mine. View of the Camp in Defense of Water and Life View of the Camp in Defence of Water and Life. (ACAFREMIN: Central American Alliance Against Mining) The government response to the protesters ...; Created on 06 May 2021
6. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...; Created on 23 April 2021
7. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mine include the violent dispersal of protesters in 2009 and 2020. The UN High Commission for Human Rights is concerned. It said that last year around 100 police forcibly dispersed some 30 indigenous and ...; Created on 22 April 2021
8. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... as just protesters. The water defenders of El Salvador, were not simply protesting, they were doing it based on the science. And they weren't simply against mining. In fact, they get angry when you call ...; Created on 22 March 2021
9. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... with the government to address these concerns, but was ignored. Protesters began sit-ins and other actions, and were accused of starting fires and confrontations with police, a charge Aduviri denies. The ...; Created on 21 January 2021
10. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
11. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... consulted in the granting of its mining license. June 19: Protesters in the town of Casillas block the main road linking Guatemala City to the Escobal mine. July 5: The supreme court issues a provisional ...; Created on 23 July 2020
12. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... works in the mine: the river are indispensable sources of water for their daily life and economic subsistence. Confrontation between protesters and security guards The conflict erupted in 2018, during ...; Created on 20 April 2020
13. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... to generate fear among protesters and to inhibit the exercise of their human rights. " In particular, as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), CEJIL has pointed out, preventive detention is ...; Created on 20 April 2020
14. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... Rights Watch, Oxfam, the United Nations and countless others have detailed environmental and human rights abuses. Those include targeted assassinations, gang rape, violence against unarmed protesters, ...; Created on 05 May 2019
15. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... KCA has argued that the protesters are disrupting their production at the El Tambor site. But the protesters haven’t disrupted the exportation from the mine, a concrete-like material, which contains ...; Created on 27 August 2018
16. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... on the way to the mine. Other transit points have also been blocked by the “resistance”, as the anti-mining protesters refer to themselves. “The first thing we want, for God’s sake, is for them ...; Created on 09 May 2018
17. A blunt NO to mining in Arcatao, Chalatenango: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the main tributary of the area and which extends along 77 kilometers of land, was unacceptable. Protesters quickly closed ranks against the mining company and did not wait until the company had set up ...; Created on 11 November 2015
18. Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... however to this date a final verdict has not been issued. Antonia Recinos from the Association for the Economic and Social Development, ADES said that the protesters gathered to have their voice heard ...; Created on 27 October 2015
19. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... contra el país centroamericano de El Salvador. September 15th- Washington, DC The Washington Post: Protesters in D.C. ask for halt to gold mining in El Salvador, say it will endanger ecology. Calling ...; Created on 29 September 2014
20. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); The Washington Post: Protesters in D.C. ask for halt to gold mining in El Salvador, say it will endanger ecology. Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters ...; Created on 25 September 2014

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