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1. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 04 April 2023
2. 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
3. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...; Created on 11 May 2021
4. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021). Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...; Created on 11 April 2021
5. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); Guapinol Resiste On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders. In its resolution ...; Created on 14 March 2021
6. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
7. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined this global community of water defenders when representatives ...; Created on 14 January 2021
8. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); CRITERIO Tegucigalpa. - Eight environmental defenders of the Atlantic zone of Honduras have been in prison for 15 months due to their opposition to a mining project which is plagued with irregularities. ...; Created on 28 December 2020
9. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance. Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...; Created on 17 December 2020
10. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); Nina Lakhani The Guardian The Guapinol community, on the country’s north coast, has become militarized in an effort to defend the river that supplies it. Gabriela Sorto has not seen or spoken to ...; Created on 07 October 2020
11. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of the imprisoned Guapinol human rights defenders, Liss Jireth Cedillo Zúniga (7) and her friend Cristhel Alejandra Romero Portillo, holding their drawings in front of the Public Ministry in Tegucigalpa, ...; Created on 01 September 2020
12. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); The Court of Appeals ruling confirms Honduras as the most dangerous country for environmental defenders in the world. On August 15, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Public and Common Goods ...; Created on 20 August 2020
13. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); Democracy Now At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed ...; Created on 17 August 2020
14. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); CONEXIHON Washington, D.C. (Conexihon) .- Hundreds of national and international civil society organizations called on the government of Honduras and Colombia to guarantee the human rights of defenders, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
15. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... organizations are unable to accompany them or to properly verify and register complaints. In addition, eight water defenders are being held in illegal pre-trial detention and face additional threats ...; Created on 23 July 2020
16. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... against the fishermen and journalists who have covered the case intensified and turned into criminal complaint actions, based on falsehoods and deceits against the defenders of life and water. Dozens of ...; Created on 12 June 2020
17. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and environment defenders in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. These violations are characterized as occurring in a time when the capacity of defenders to assert their democratic rights are severely ...; Created on 21 April 2020
18. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); San José, February 27, 2020.- Today, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) argued before the Honduran Court of Appeals that the deprivation of liberty of seven defenders of the Guapinol ...; Created on 20 April 2020
19. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... 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 ...; Created on 20 April 2020
20. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... been "Criminalization of environmental defenders of the movements of the Central American region". The meeting was carried out in the municipality of Ataco in the department of Ahuachapán, El Salvador, ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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