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1. Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’: (2013 North America Tour); Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’ AL GEDICKS AND ERIC HANSEN | UW-La Crosse professor (Midwest Coalition against Lethal Mining member) and outdoor writer, respectively ...; Created on 18 May 2012
2. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the country. We also have concerns that these men have been denied their basic right to due process,” 17 U.S. members of Congress said in a letter earlier this month. Known locally as “water defenders,” ...; Created on 20 December 2023
3. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... respect human rights, especially due to the serious doubts generated by the lack of judicial independence and the rule of law by current judicial institutions. We also demand that the process be conducted ...; Created on 13 January 2023
4. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... authorities in the licensing process. Moreover, the consultation is binding for the municipality according to the municipal autonomy principle established in the political constitution of the republic. ...; Created on 23 September 2022
5. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... local municipal council is obliged to put a process in place to consult the population. At least 20% of the registered voters must participate in the referendum for it to be binding. From ...; Created on 22 September 2022
6. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... missions were able to verify on site that the company assigned prosecutors during the voting process, covering the 6 voting centers designated for the population to cast their vote. Based on the procedures ...; Created on 21 September 2022
7. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... to build emancipatory processes little by little, knowing that they are long-term processes. Vallecito was created thinking about that, about that life project, about building something different. The ...; Created on 25 December 2021
8. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... will be in charge of reviewing such permits and will be the competent authority to process new authorizations for exploitation in accordance with the respective regulations; the use of water for large ...; Created on 23 December 2021
9. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 2015 that suspended the mine for lack of prior consultation with local communities. While the seizure order is lifted, the mine must remain closed until a consultation process takes place. The Peaceful ...; Created on 07 June 2021
10. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ResistEscobal Indigenous Xinka authorities and the Ministry of Energy and Mines establish initial agreements regarding the pre-consultation process The first pre-consultation meeting concerning ...; Created on 26 May 2021
11. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... project.” What happens now? Prensa Libre explains (in an article about the start of a preparatory process for a consultation with the community on the El Escobal mine): “Regarding the Progreso VII ...; Created on 22 May 2021
12. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the context of the consultation that worsens social division. This is evidenced by a rise in violent attacks against participants in the consultation process, including an attempted assassination against ...; Created on 17 May 2021
13. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and mediation processes. The office promotes responsible business conduct and it engages with stakeholders on a consultative level. According to CORE’s website, “The Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson ...; Created on 12 May 2021
14. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... integrity of a court-ordered consultation process and put their security at risk. Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine has been suspended since June 2017, first as a result of direct community action and ...; Created on 12 May 2021
15. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... was declared a national park. The next year, congress reduced the park’s no-development zone to accommodate the mine’s development, following a permit process mired by irregularities. Inversiones Los ...; Created on 06 May 2021
16. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... consultation on the Initiative on Corporate Responsibility carried out in Switzerland in November 2020, as well as an update on the negotiation process at the UN for a Binding Treaty on Business and Human ...; Created on 22 April 2021
17. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to their land. But it failed to reach agreement with all relevant Didipio landholders and, allegedly, tried to circumvent consent processes. It also committed human rights abuses to forcefully acquire ...; Created on 22 April 2021
18. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... A long stretch of conveyor belt transport nickel ores to mineral processing plant within the Taganito Mining Corporation (TMC) site in Surigao del Norte province, February 2016. Image by Ryan Dael of ...; Created on 15 April 2021
19. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 05 April 2021
20. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... deadly chemical used in the mining process. The Haile Gold Mine, which stands to produce more than $2 billion in gold and silver from the mine expansion, has broken a federal wastewater law twice since ...; Created on 30 March 2021

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