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1. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... times when nature—and its defenders—are clearly under attack, on this eleventh hour of planetary emergency, climate crisis, and the sixth mass extinction event. If we do not fight back, no one will be ...; Created on 25 July 2020
2. Case Studies: Investor-State Attacks on Public Interest Policies: (ISDS); Public Citizen The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system shifts the power between the government and corporations, prioritizing corporate rights. Foreign corporations have used ISDS to attack ...; Created on 30 April 2016
3. Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas January 2012 A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months ...; Created on 12 March 2012
4. New Threats and Attacks in Cabanas: (Mining and Human Rights); A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months without violence or intimidation. On Friday January 20th, ...; Created on 12 February 2012
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the reversal of the mining ban by attacking land and water defenders, as Omar Flores of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining outlines: Nayib Bukele utilizes a narrative of hate and stigma against ...; Created on 06 April 2023
6. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... used to arrest the social activists reveal the construction of a legal case whose real purpose is to attack the Santa Marta community and the ADES leaders. Through a statement, the community of Santa ...; Created on 19 January 2023
7. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... governments’ strategies aimed at undermining community and civil society organizations. In this case, attacks against the staff of DES could be related to the intentions of the current government to reopen ...; Created on 13 January 2023
8. 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
9. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... He moved to Canada in 2007 as a political refugee after he and his family were violently attacked in response to his activism. The ambush resulted in his wife’s death, and left Claver and his daughter ...; Created on 12 May 2021
10. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
11. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalization, social media attacks and constant threats. Several residents have been forced to flee Honduras to escape criminal persecution. Meanwhile, the state uses corruption and police repression ...; Created on 06 May 2021
12. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... were unable to confirm the specifics of the contamination because Tahoe wouldn’t let them inspect their site. Earlier that month, environmental NGO Grufides reported that around 100 armed men attacked ...; Created on 21 January 2021
13. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... payment of his salary, added to the risk of being a security employee. In El Salvador, this work involves a high risk of threats, physical attacks or even death by gangs. "(At the beginning) I was worried ...; Created on 05 January 2021
14. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners. The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...; Created on 17 December 2020
15. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... human rights defenders in Honduras … illustrating the government’s tendency to favor economic interests over human rights and its willingness to attack their citizens’ freedom of association, expression, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
16. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Dispute Settlement (ISDS) under the terms of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) with the US. “Riot police attacked peaceful protestors, paving the way for the company’s ...; Created on 24 August 2020
17. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... men who were reportedly wearing police uniforms and forced them into three unmarked vehicles at gunpoint. This was the latest attack against the Garífuna community as they defend their territory from destructive ...; Created on 17 August 2020
18. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the attacks against Yoni Rivas of the Agrarian Platform and the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA), who is based in the Lower Aguán Region is currently unable to leave the area due to the curfew, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
19. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of water or environmental resources. And concretely, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, has also had to face attacks and accusations and discredit from the economic leadership, and ...; Created on 17 June 2020
20. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... communities of San Isidro Cabañas, to oppose metal projects. That opposition caused mining companies, allied with the local right-wing government, to organize attacks on our leaders,” expressed the representative ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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