International groups denounce US mining company’s multi-million dollar claim against Guatemala and express solidarity with communities peacefully defending land and life at ‘La Puya’
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... five “water defenders” say there’s insufficient evidence in the case and that they’re protected from prosecution by a post-war reconciliation law.
The arrest of five environmental activists fighting ...
International week of action to defend El Salvador´s mining ban and demand the release of the five Water Defenders of Santa Marta
As social organizations in El Salvador recently celebrated the sixth ...
... prohibition is facing new threats. On January 11, the Salvadoran government ordered the arrest of five prominent anti-mining activists and water defenders: Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, ...
... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...
... about possible criminalization actions against environmental and human rights defenders of Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, Guatemala, and we urge the Guatemalan government and the company Bluestone Resources INC ...
... crises. First of all, we have migrant caravans. Honduras is also the most violent and insecure country for human rights defenders; it became a narco-government, where the president´s brother has been tried ...
... of strategic aquifers while water defenders in localities like Valle de Ángel in Apopa, the La Labor community in Ahuachapán and many others are accused of terrorism, persecuted and imprisoned.
Faced ...
... with the most mining-related deaths among environmental defenders.
Executive Order 130 cites new fiscal regulations and environmental safeguards but Kalikasan PNE said the regulatory framework "remains ...
... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.”
Environment defenders, ...
... severely wounded. He is a national spokesperson for the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance.
Claver knows first-hand the dangers facing land defenders in the Philippines who resist mining and other industrial ...
... to Guatemalan authorities and signed by nearly 200 organizations concerned over the recent attacks and threats against defenders, Pan American Silver wrote that it continues “community relations activities ...
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Honduras is the deadliest place in the world for environmental defenders. Hundreds of them have been killed since 2009, including the Indigenous environmental leader Berta Càceres, who was assassinated ...
... is stacked against them?
In The Water Defenders, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh seek answers to that dilemma.
The book chronicles the improbable victory of grassroots activists in El Salvador who ...
... in which to be a defender. 64 community and social leaders were killed in 2019 according to reports from Global Witness, while Front Line Defenders affirms that of the 177 Human Rights defenders murdered ...
... environment defenders who were exercising their right to freedom of assembly to object to the continued operations in the Didipio mine, adding that the police used “unnecessary and disproportionate force”. ...
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The mining sector was the deadliest in the world for environmental and land defenders in 2019, according to Global Witness; the Philippines has the most mining-related killings that year, and activists ...
... in the world to ban mining to save its precious rivers. Their battle cries: “Water, not gold” and “Water for life.” In the process of their 13-year fight, these water defenders organized a national coalition ...
... the government under the rigged rules that govern investment across borders.
As we describe in our new book, The Water Defenders, communities across El Salvador fought back. They studied the science ...
... Marco Werman spoke with attorney Luis Parada, who led El Salvador’s defense team in a mining lawsuit at the World Bank, and Robin Broad, a co-author of the book, "The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People ...