search

1. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... there is a pattern of repression against the local authorities," Cadena concluded. CGN mine facilities in El Estor, Izabal. The actions of the National Civil Police The Public Ministry, the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
2. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... the rulings of the Inter-American Human Rights System and has intensified the criminalization, repression, and prosecution of the Garífuna people. Human rights defenders have been assassinated and four ...; Created on 25 December 2021
3. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... administrations refused.” It is important to mention that the lead up to this pre-consultation process has been marked by a context of repression, criminalization, assassinations, and discrimination. ...; Created on 26 May 2021
4. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that has been in place since 2003 is leading to unrest and repression. The mining ban in Chubut has been tenaciously defended for nearly twenty years out of concern for mining’s impacts on water and the ...; Created on 17 May 2021
5. 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
6. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... interests in South America include the mining of coal in Colombia and new international actions about this; high levels of conflict at Glencore operations; repression, human rights violations and children ...; Created on 22 April 2021
7. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them. First, they resort to repression. Then, if that fails, they sue governments in international tribunals — which ...; Created on 21 October 2020
8. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... , a major political powerbroker who before his death in 2015 was accused of land grabs, violent repression and links with drug traffickers. Over the next few years, mining permits were issued and road ...; Created on 07 October 2020
9. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... for new, free and fair elections, for democratic governance, for fundamental rights and an end to authoritarian repression on the European continent." Urmas Paet, an Estonian member of Renew Europe, ...; Created on 29 September 2020
10. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...; Created on 24 August 2020
11. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... speaking to Democracy Now! from her home in Honduras in July. MIRIAM MIRANDA: [translated] What happened is a reflection of systemic persecution, systemic repression, but also a well-crafted plan by ...; Created on 17 August 2020
12. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... by armed groups in the area. Opposition to mining projects generates great violence and repression in the communities. Golden belt, a calamity for communities Carrizalillo is a community in the ...; Created on 09 August 2020
13. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... and other extractive projects, who have faced particularly intense forms of harassment and repression from police and military, exacerbating territorial conflicts. Meanwhile, human rights and environmental ...; Created on 23 July 2020
14. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... state repression towards social protests. In Peru, states of emergency also continue to be decreed along with militarization of the mining corridor in the Southern Andes where Moquegua, the site of the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
15. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... repression, and violation of human rights against the people of the aforementioned communities. The community leaders also assured that for no reason it is justifiable to establish curfews and controls ...; Created on 20 July 2020
16. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and human rights defenders and our supporters to pressure Filipino public authorities to take action. Let us support our defenders in the Philippines against repression and encourage them to continue their ...; Created on 21 April 2020
17. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... repression, the research team found a strong and firm community in their opposition to the mine, determined to defend the water sources of the Guapinol river. The river is their way of life and their families, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
18. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... and criminalization against environmental defenders. In Honduras, repression has intensified this year through protests against the privatization reforms of health and education and the increase of violence ...; Created on 26 December 2019
19. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and Dora Sorto, who were criminalized and killed for opposing mining projects in this area. On this occasion, the commemoration was held in the town of Maraña, home to some of the victims of the repression ...; Created on 26 December 2019
20. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... They have also expressed concern about the massive amount of water the mine would use in their water-scarce region. Their struggle to defend water has seen a blockade of the mine site, repression and ...; Created on 03 May 2019

Start
Prev
1
2
Next
End

Allied Organizations

Contact Us