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1. 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
2. Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.: (Territories Free of Mining); By Alfredo Carias, National Roundtable Against Mining in El Salvador translated from: http://tinyurl.com/mpx7p4n It was 2 pm in the afternoon as we heard a woman's voice, through a loud speaker located ...; Created on 08 September 2014
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and others report hearing testimonies from rural community members that representatives from mining companies are visiting their towns. Locals in the region of Cabañas (including Antonio Pacheca, one of ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... legal proceedings against their members and representatives. Santa Marta is an exemplary community that has achieved enormous social development, like no other rural population in the country. ADES has ...; Created on 13 January 2023
5. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Alliance against the Privatization of Water, the Roundtable of Churches in El Salvador and the Central American University state the following: The Law continues to harm the rural and urban Community ...; Created on 23 December 2021
6. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); Minería Panamericana Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher ...; Created on 08 June 2021
7. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations ...; Created on 07 June 2021
8. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... reform and rural development, and genuine sustainable development in order to translate mining into a truly just and green economic recovery," it added. The group cited the large-scale mining operations ...; Created on 27 May 2021
9. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... administration of former President Benigno Aquino III. Creating new mining deals will also spur employment opportunities in rural areas, as well as provide support to its flagship infrastructure program, ...; Created on 24 May 2021
10. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and activist who directed a cultural center in his rural hometown of San Isidro. The authors recount these dramatic setbacks and how the movement responded to them, extracting lessons that might apply ...; Created on 23 April 2021
11. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... and children in rural communities in the area. A Giant in Espinar - Glencore and the patterns of corporate power in the South of Peru An important detail regarding the conflict in Espinar is the existence ...; Created on 22 April 2021
12. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... work that the water defenders did, is positioned as less than a “PhD in economics.” I fear that the term “ordinary people” does something similar: It positions rural people as somehow less than the urban ...; Created on 11 April 2021
13. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... few miles down the road. Despite concerns about its environmental record, mine worker Joey Byrd said at the hearing that Haile runs a safe operation and is an asset to rural Lancaster County. “Haile ...; Created on 02 April 2021
14. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... in rural Lancaster County, the mine is on about 4,500 acres and features multiple pits, some of which are expected to approach 1,000 feet deep. OceanaGold has in recent months sought to expand the Haile ...; Created on 12 February 2021
15. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... rate is 7.3%, one of the highest figures compared to the rest of the country. Most houses in rural Cabañas are built with adobe (mud bricks) or zinc sheets. At 82%, it has one of the lowest literacy ...; Created on 05 January 2021
16. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... is aware exploration has started in rural land in Waihi—there’s a drill rig that allows OceanaGold to determine ground condition and stability. He said the activity falls under a range of works under the ...; Created on 17 December 2020
17. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... from the Black indigenous Garifuna community have triggered widespread criticism. Guapinol is a semi-rural neighbourhood in the fertile, mineral-rich Bajo Agua region, where for years subsistence farmers ...; Created on 07 October 2020
18. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... brief shutdown. As a result, not only have mine sites become a vector for the spread of the coronavirus into rural areas and vulnerable territories, but land and water protectors on lockdown — who’ve been ...; Created on 23 July 2020
19. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... members of the MOVIAC. “We demand the approval of a Law for the Promotion of Agroecology, which ensures the conditions of access to land and other productive resources for rural and indigenous families, ...; Created on 06 June 2020
20. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... and rural communities who experience a permanent violation of the human right to water. Social organizations insist that the private management of water resources, proposed by pro business political ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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