The Guardian Nina Lakhani
Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...
... On December 21 of this year, the ruling party of the Legislative Assembly approved the General Law on Water Resources. Following the approval, environmental organizations such as the Water Forum, the National ...
... To shareholders attending online, Beaty narrated a glowing chronicle of Pan American Silver’s socially and environmentally responsible history in Latin America. Yet, when Breaking the Silence and other ...
The Conversation
Giada Ferrucci
Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people ...
PROSPECT
Sasha Chavkin
From tropical rain forests to drinkable water, a vast share of the planet’s essential environmental resources are found in developing countries. When growth-oriented governments ...
The State
Sammy
A gold mine that is seeking to expand in Lancaster County has again drawn state scrutiny for violating environmental rules, this time over excessive discharges of cyanide, a potentially ...
The Market Herald
Oliver Gray
OceanaGold (OGC) has been fined US$100,000 (roughly A$128,500) for breaching environmental rules at its Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina This marks the third time in ...
... They wanted proper consultation and to protect their river – a vital source of freshwater for the community. Against this backdrop, land and environmental activists continue to fight against the mining ...
P. Cabezas
On July 11th, environmental justice activists in El Salvador commemorated the 11th anniversary of the 2009 assassination of Marcelo Rivera, a community cultural activist and water defender ...
... Corp., and Coal Black Mining Corp.
Gloria Tomalon’s family has a long tradition of activism and environmental protection. She is the sister of progressive and indigenous legislator Eufemia Cullamat of ...
... lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation of seven environmental activists who have been held in preventive detention since last September at the Olanchito ...
... to verify reports of human rights violations against environmental defenders who oppose the mining project in the municipality of Tocoa, Colón. The project is the property of Lenir Pérez, a businessman ...
John C. Cannon - Mongabay
The Environmental Justice Atlas released new maps March 2 alleging that Pan American Silver operates mines that don’t have the consent of local communities and that pollute ...
ACAFREMIN
Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...
Karla Rodas - Vanguardia
El Salvador is among the ten most vulnerable countries in the world due to its geographical position and environmental conditions such as deforestation, limited access to water ...
Marvin Diaz - Gato Encerrado
The criminalization of environmentalists and land defenders was the thematic focus of the fifth meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining (ACAFREMIN) in El Salvador. ...
... be said that one of the biggest environmental victories in the world was won in a small country, which for many decades was classified as one of the environmentally worst, not knowing that within its lands ...
... closures of the abandoned mines and remediation measures for environmental damage, remain absent. The government of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) had two years to enact these measures ...
PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...
Alfredo Carias: Vanguardia
In the midst of an important victory in El Salvador, an evaluation of the social and environmental conditions in the country contrasts to the achievements obtained with the ...