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1. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining El Salvador San Salvador December 16, 2021 - Only four years have passed since El Salvador banned metal mining in all its forms. ...
Created on 16 December 2021
2. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders
(Mining and Human Rights)
... were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed ...
Created on 17 August 2020
3. Letter Submitted to the Legislature to Demand the Return of the Proposed Law Banning Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Mining, La Mesa). Members of the National Roundtable Against Mining met with the Legislative Assembly to present a letter demanding the return to the study and adoption of the bill that bans metal mining ...
Created on 10 February 2017
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... US assistance. The return of mining will only continue to exacerbate these injustices. At the same time, the Bukele administration apparently views mining as a way to bolster the country’s sagging revenues, ...
Created on 06 April 2023
5. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... a return to mining. His government has established a new agency to oversee extractive industries and started looking into international agreements that would facilitate investment in precious metals. It ...
Created on 03 April 2023
6. Gov’t finalizing terms for OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... be returned to the Office of the President for review and approval in the near-term… We look forward to working with stakeholders and Government officials to safely restart operations and continue the ...
Created on 05 May 2021
7. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes
(General mining reports )
... titles across two mines in Cesar, La Jagua and Calenturitas. In February, Prodeco announced they were returning their mining contracts to the Colombian government and halting operations in the country, ...
Created on 22 April 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... skin diseases, and displaced communities caused by cyanide heap-leach mining firsthand. They returned more committed than ever to defend their forests, rivers, and communities. Pac Rim was also quite ...
Created on 11 April 2021
9. Mine reappears on list of suspects: Lead source inquiry welcomed
(OceanaGold)
Otago Daily Hamish Maclean OceanaGold has welcomed investigations under way to rule out all possible sources of lead in an Otago community’s water supply even after the mining company resurfaced on ...
Created on 13 March 2021
10. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020
(ISDS)
... having an impact on its cash flow. The third-party funder funds the investor's legal fees and costs associated with the arbitration in return for a portion of the proceeds of any award in the investor' ...
Created on 06 January 2021
11. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras
(Regional News)
... no news of their whereabouts, and a tense atmosphere has taken over Triunfo de la Cruz. Several Garífuna communities across Honduras have protested, demanding the return of the same safe and sound under ...
Created on 03 September 2020
12. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
(Regional News)
... organization of these Shuar communities, has roundly rejected any mining in their territory and publicly denounced the delegation’s visit to Toronto. Even worse, upon return, two close relatives of the ...
Created on 23 July 2020
13. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to manipulate or repeal the Law on Prohibition of Metal Mining for economic returns, which eventually will only fill the pocket of investors while affecting the majorities in the communities.  “As long ...
Created on 26 December 2019
14. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... to return and keep asking for help. Maybe that’s why,” said Simongo. The Canadian embassy in Manila did not respond directly to the allegations but spokesperson Michel Cimpaye said, “Promoting respect ...
Created on 04 October 2019
15. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... needs of the people and the limits of nature. Climate Change is devastating the lives of millions of people around the world. Science warns that we will soon reach the point of no return that will put ...
Created on 26 September 2019
16. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project
(FTAs & ISDS)
... considered underwater cultural heritage of a Spanish ship sunk in the Atlantic in 1804 (the find originated a 5-year litigation with the Spanish government that ended forcing the company to return the ...
Created on 24 September 2019
17. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... to stop the industry. But, as environmental defender Vidalina Morales mentions, there is a latent danger in companies continue who want to return, with the invitation of a president (Nayib Bukele) who ...
Created on 18 September 2019
18. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it
(FTAs & ISDS)
... will outsource the legal costs of their ISDS claim to a financial firm, who in return receives a portion of the compensation if the investor’s claim is successful. In other words, third-party funding has ...
Created on 05 May 2019
19. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... originate in their struggle to repopulate the town of Santa Marta, Cabañas, at the height of the bloody civil war. Founded by community members on their return from Honduran refugee camps, ADES and Radio ...
Created on 24 August 2018
20. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... miners as the repeal of the mining prohibition will not only mean the return of a mining corporation that abandoned the community 11 years ago, but still holds title to the land, it will also mean the ...
Created on 07 May 2018
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