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1. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... Washington DC.. The award has been presented by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) to individuals and organizations who are role models in the fight for the defense of human rights in the US, Latin ...; Created on 24 October 2019
2. Semana Internacional de Accion para Demandar la Libertad de los 5 Defensores de Santa Marta y ADES: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... Studies, Washington Ethical Society, International AlliesAgainst Mining in El Salvador) 27 de abril: (FILIPINAS) Publicación de la Declaración de Solidaridad de AlyansaTigil Mina y otros grupos ambientalistas. ...; Created on 09 April 2023
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 5 PM Ottawa/Washington, DC: International Solidarity Webinar: Free the Santa Marta Water Defenders! Protect El Salvador’s Peace Agreement! Organized by the International Allies against mining in El Salvador. ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... In a statement, the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) said the government’s decision to arrest the five men while blocking justice in high-profile cases like the El Mozote massacre ...; Created on 04 April 2023
5. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... based in Washington D.C. in the United States, which for almost six decades has been conducting research and supporting progressive social movements and leaders. In an interview with Mongabay Latam, ...; Created on 25 December 2021
6. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... requests in 2014. The documents released to date, though redacted, show that Canadian officials engaged on Goldcorp’s behalf with decision-makers in Guatemala and Washington after the Organization ...; Created on 11 May 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... in Tocoa. The Institute for Policy Studies, Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank, awarded the community committee with the international Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award. In 2020, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... World Bank in the spotlight. This campaign recruited allies including the AFL-CIO and Teamsters, earned coverage in leading U.S. media outlets, and convened a rally in Washington, D.C., outside the tribunal’s ...; Created on 23 April 2021
9. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to repeat this question at several points throughout the book. After describing the October 2009 award ceremony in Washington where Broad and Cavanagh first met a number of the water defenders in person, ...; Created on 11 April 2021
10. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... from actively assisting Big Gold. La Mesa’s international alliances that included labor, environmental, faith, and solidarity organizations from Melbourne to Manila to Washington, D.C. played a role ...; Created on 05 April 2021
11. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Is Investigated by U.S. Federal Prosecutors for Drug Trafficking, Corruption Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, and Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) today led ...; Created on 23 February 2021
12. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has allowed a group of investors from the Washington DC-based firm NeWay Capital to establish an independent governance system as an experiment with privatized jurisdictions. Hondurans are facing a ...; Created on 15 February 2021
13. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...; Created on 14 January 2021
14. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods were victims of a defamation campaign while they were in Washington to receive an international human rights award for their environmental activism. Pinares ...; Created on 25 September 2020
15. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); CONEXIHON Washington, D.C. (Conexihon) .- Hundreds of national and international civil society organizations called on the government of Honduras and Colombia to guarantee the human rights of defenders, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
16. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... in bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and may bring rise to claims in the future by foreign investors.” The Washington, D.C.-based Aceris has won arbitration cases for numerous global corporations. This ...; Created on 23 July 2020
17. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... justice for him, Dora and Ramiro, so that their seed harvest the fruit of justice and equality in our communities” said Vidalina Morales. VIDEO: John Cavanah, director of the Washington based Institute ...; Created on 15 July 2020
18. Government declares optimism regarding demand for Eco Oro: (Regional News); ... Relativas a Inversiones del Banco Mundial, con sede en Washington. La empresa, antes llamada Greystar, reclama una compensación por 764 millones de dólares. Translation from: https://caracol.com.co/emisora/2020/05/14/bucaramanga/1589463219_350457.html ...; Created on 14 May 2020
19. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... chairperson of a Washington-based law firm who defends governments in such suits, has described the system as the “Wild Wild West of International Law”. According to Kahale III, when it comes to international ...; Created on 03 May 2020
20. DHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award: (Regional News); ... On October 4th 2018 in Washington D.C. Cristóbal Yugra Villanueva and Jacinta Yolanda Montoro Flores, accompanied by sister Patricia Ryan, received the 42nd Letelier Moffitt Prize for DHUMA’s dedication ...; Created on 16 September 2019

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