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1. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved: (Background and reports ); Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze. 49 applications for metal ...; Created on 07 January 2016
2. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... who were arrested in January. A lack of evidence behind the allegation that they were involved in a civil war-era kidnapping and murder has raised questions from U.S. officials and the U.N. about the ...; Created on 20 December 2023
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... multinational mining companies. Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... were killed protesting the Pacific Rim project — including Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto, who was eight months pregnant. Ultimately, the company was denied the license on the grounds that it had failed to ...; Created on 06 April 2023
5. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were detained on Wednesday in Cabañas in northern El Salvador, accused of killing an alleged army informant ...; Created on 04 April 2023
6. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... decades speaking out contamination of water sources by mining projects, were arrested in January after mining officials visited their town of Santa Marta. MEXICO CITY — It was considered a major environmental ...; Created on 03 April 2023
7. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador. Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas ...; Created on 20 January 2023
8. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); TeleSur Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war. On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economic Development ...; Created on 19 January 2023
9. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... carried out under article 64 of the Guatemalan Municipal Code. We express: That today, September 21, 2022, at 3:45 pm, we were notified about an injunction against the Commission specifically ...; Created on 23 September 2022
10. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); A municipal referendum was held on September 18 in Asunción Mita, Guatemala, that will impact the future of the Cerro Blanco mine. The question on the ballot aske d people if they were in agreement ...; Created on 22 September 2022
11. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... of those who cast ballots voted against metal mining projects and only 10.63% expressed were in favor. The Commission is made up of representatives of the municipal government of Asunción Mita, the Catholic ...; Created on 21 September 2022
12. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Miranda grew up in a Garifuna family that migrated from their community in Santa Fe, Colón, to live and work in a banana field. In those plantations, she saw how people were treated like slaves: the end ...; Created on 25 December 2021
13. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general. In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...; Created on 16 December 2021
14. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of directors of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), were recently in the country to “promote debate on mining for sustainable development”, revealing a clear intention that threatens the interests ...; Created on 14 December 2021
15. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... damages to human health, organizations in the country sought to build national alliances with universities, NGOs and the church to counter the deceit (jobs and development) that companies were utilizing ...; Created on 29 June 2021
16. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); Minería Panamericana Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher ...; Created on 08 June 2021
17. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... KCA’s assets. May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya. The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...; Created on 07 June 2021
18. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Meanwhile, House Bill 6450, or the Open Pit Mining Ban bill, aims to impose a moratorium on the open pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country. Both bills were introduced ...; Created on 27 May 2021
19. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Silver (PAS), current owners of the Escobal mining project were present. Also in attendance were the 59 authorities accredited to represent the Xinka People of Guatemala in the consultation process. The ...; Created on 26 May 2021
20. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... catastrophe that would fuel violations of socio-economic rights,” said Hicap. Since President Duterte came into office, at least 124 Filipino environment defenders were subjected to red-tagging and criminalization, ...; Created on 24 May 2021

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