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 ...
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 ...
... crises. First of all, we have migrant caravans. Honduras is also the most violent and insecure country for human rights defenders; it became a narco-government, where the president´s brother has been tried ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
... one land defender in January, an armed attack against a Xinka delegate to the consultation process in April, and death threats against others. In April of this year, 3,900+ individuals signed a petition ...
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Samantha Ponting
“I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation ...
... to Guatemalan authorities and signed by nearly 200 organizations concerned over the recent attacks and threats against defenders, Pan American Silver wrote that it continues “community relations activities ...
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Honduras is the deadliest place in the world for environmental defenders. Hundreds of them have been killed since 2009, including the Indigenous environmental leader Berta Càceres, who was assassinated ...
... is stacked against them?
In The Water Defenders, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh seek answers to that dilemma.
The book chronicles the improbable victory of grassroots activists in El Salvador who ...
... in which to be a defender. 64 community and social leaders were killed in 2019 according to reports from Global Witness, while Front Line Defenders affirms that of the 177 Human Rights defenders murdered ...
... environment defenders who were exercising their right to freedom of assembly to object to the continued operations in the Didipio mine, adding that the police used “unnecessary and disproportionate force”. ...