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1. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects that are environmentally destructive and threaten the livelihoods of surrounding communities. According to ICHRP-Toronto member Angela Asuncion, 60 percent of transnational mines in the Philippines ...; Created on 12 May 2021
2. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... with the domestic legal system. Foreign investors can reduce the risk of investing abroad by ensuring that their investments benefit from the protections contained in investment treaties. This is not ...; Created on 06 January 2021
3. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... rights. In addition, this decree allows arrests and interrogations without warrants or any sort of justification. The new measures will be implemented in the municipalities of El Estor, Livingston, ...; Created on 20 July 2020
4. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); We analyzed 38 multi-million dollar claims brought by the mining industry using ISDS and other investment protection laws; in over half, communities are fighting to protect Indigenous territory, water, ...; Created on 03 May 2019
5. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); * Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...; Created on 03 May 2019
6. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... peasant rights. The case of Walter Aduviri and the Aymara people is emblematic of the attacks and threats faced by communities that stand up to defend their basic resources throughout Latin America ...; Created on 28 August 2018
7. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); Jeff Abbott : UPSIDEDOWN WORLD The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s ...; Created on 27 August 2018
8. REPORT: Golden opportunities for profits, corporate plunder for OceanaGold Corporation: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Report by IBON International "Towards curbing OceanaGold’s dirty operations in El Salvador and the Philippines, efforts of people’s organisations, communities, environmental advocates as well as international ...; Created on 24 August 2018
9. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a mining permit. Legislated limits have been imposed on metal mining elsewhere under pressure from affected communities and to protect ecologically and culturally important areas. Costa Rica banned ...; Created on 26 June 2017
10. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... also received by René Portillo Cuadra, from ARENA, and Norma Guevara, from the FMLN who promised their parties' support for the initiative. Gallegos even anticipated that there would be good news regarding ...; Created on 09 March 2017
11. How communities in El Salvador are organizing to block mining projects: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...; Created on 05 March 2017
12. Communities Call on Local Representatives to Approve Anti-Mining Regulation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that bans metal mining in the country. In 2009 civil society organizations and communities presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly against mining, but up until now there have been no advances in ...; Created on 10 February 2017
13. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Dora Sorto, they have carried a long moral grief for their absence, but the grief has transcended to communities that continue their resistance against projects that risk the health of natural resources ...; Created on 03 January 2017
14. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); TELESUR For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale. After El Salvador won a decade-long legal battle against mining company OceanaGold on ...; Created on 10 November 2016
15. Myth and Realities of Mining Central America: (General mining reports ); Caritas El Salvador This article discusses four myths that are told by the mining industry in order to justify their activities in Central America. First, that the current technologies used in mining ...; Created on 23 April 2016
16. Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment: (General Environment Backrounders); Earthworks and Oxfam America Mining has harmful effects on communities and their surrounding environment. Open-pit mines cause environmental destruction by deforestation and leaching harmful chemicals ...; Created on 23 April 2016
17. Research reveals that right wing parties collaborate with mining companies in the department of Cabanas.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By Wilber Ruano: RNES An investigation by MiningWatch Canada reports that the activities of the El Dorado Foundation, originally established by Pacific Rim in El Salvador in 2005, and now run by OCEANAGOLD, ...; Created on 07 March 2016
18. Communities Oppose Mining Project: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By: Oscar López -CoLatino / Translated by: Marco Melloni People of different communities in the San Isidro municipality, region of Cabañas, manifested their opposition to a metal mining project in the ...; Created on 30 September 2015
19. Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.: (Territories Free of Mining); ... in the park of San Jose Las Flores, inviting people living in the urban core to attend a public event against mining. The event was promoted by leaders from the communities of El Portillo, El Tamarindo, ...; Created on 08 September 2014
20. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... aid and relief organization Oxfam America praised the ten members of Congress who urged the National Assembly of El Salvador to take immediate action to protect the environment and local communities from ...; Created on 27 November 2013

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