Jen Moore
On November 27, 2019, the life and struggle of Mariano Abarca were honored with the presentation of the first award for environmental defense in Chiapas to be presented in his name. His brother, ...
ACAFREMIN
Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...
... 2010 have fiercely defended their main water source, the Guapinol River, from being contaminated by an Iron Oxide mine, owned by one of the most powerful families of Honduras.
Reynaldo Dominguez a leader ...
Natashya Gutierrez and Anya Zoledziowski - VICE
Not only do Canadian mines in the Philippines degrade the environment and displace Indigenous communities, activists say, eco-defenders are targeted by ...
... against the Privatization of Water, we will not rest in our fight to defend water and the environment which is what the lives of our people depend on!!
Water and the climate are not for sale, we protect ...
... of these cases, communities have been actively organizing to resist mining activities and defend their land, health, environment, self-determination, and ways of life.
“Mining and other extractive ...
International groups denounce US mining company’s multi-million dollar claim against Guatemala and express solidarity with communities peacefully defending land and life at ‘La Puya’
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... five “water defenders” say there’s insufficient evidence in the case and that they’re protected from prosecution by a post-war reconciliation law.
The arrest of five environmental activists fighting ...
Semana de acción internacional para defender la prohibición minera en El Salvador y exigir la liberación de los cinco Defensores de Santa Marta
Mientras organizaciones sociales en El Salvador celebraron ...
International week of action to defend El Salvador´s mining ban and demand the release of the five Water Defenders of Santa Marta
As social organizations in El Salvador recently celebrated the sixth ...
... prohibition is facing new threats. On January 11, the Salvadoran government ordered the arrest of five prominent anti-mining activists and water defenders: Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, ...
... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...
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Mesa Nacional contra la Minería Metálica
Mesa por la Soberanía Alimentaria
Mesa por el Derecho a Defender Derechos Humanos
Mesa Permanente para la Gestión de Riesgos (MPGR)
Movimiento Ecofeminista ...
... about possible criminalization actions against environmental and human rights defenders of Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, Guatemala, and we urge the Guatemalan government and the company Bluestone Resources INC ...
... (also known as Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH). This organization works to vindicate the cultural, political, and territorial rights of the Garifuna people.
* For its work defending ...
THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES
San Salvador, December 22, 2021. ...
... of strategic aquifers while water defenders in localities like Valle de Ángel in Apopa, the La Labor community in Ahuachapán and many others are accused of terrorism, persecuted and imprisoned.
Faced ...
... police actions to defend the company’s interests and repress community members. Just a couple of weeks ago, police put on an intimidating show of force on behalf of KCA, a reminder of the strong government ...
... with the most mining-related deaths among environmental defenders.
Executive Order 130 cites new fiscal regulations and environmental safeguards but Kalikasan PNE said the regulatory framework "remains ...
... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.”
Environment defenders, ...