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1. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a fight against mining and also emphasized the need to continue to be vigilant, as mining transnationals are approaching the incoming government. “Remembering the legacy of Marcelo who fought against ...; Created on 18 September 2019
2. Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... on Corporate Accountability, and – with the support of tens and hundreds of thousands of Canadians over the years – has continuously fought for a such an oversight body, as well as for legal accountability ...; Created on 08 February 2018
3. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... during the civil war. In fact, several of our organizations have fought during the last three decades for the truth to emerge, for the restitution for victims, and for the meaningful application of justice. ...; Created on 13 January 2023
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... at least, we have fought to vindicate the cultural, political, spiritual, and territorial rights of our Garífuna people. We are a people that arises from a mixture, from an indigenous composition — from ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... such as Pacific Rim would not settle in the country. The communities, social organizations, churches, universities and other sectors of Salvadoran society who fought for the ban on metallic mining remain ...; Created on 16 December 2021
6. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections. Case in ...; Created on 07 June 2021
7. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to reach agreements regarding the start of the pre-consultation process. Aleisar Arana, Huxi Hurak of the Xinka People said, “It is a very special day, a day we fought for, a day that will remain in ...; Created on 26 May 2021
8. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fought to protect local water resources against foreign mining companies. Broad and Cavanagh, a wife-and-husband team of development scholars who joined in the water defenders’ movement, detail the hardships, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
9. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the government under the rigged rules that govern investment across borders. As we describe in our new book, The Water Defenders, communities across El Salvador fought back. They studied the science ...; Created on 28 March 2021
10. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the lawyer who fought the Pacific Rim Mining Corp. This mining ban was a huge victory for activists. Some of them, though, paid a heavy price. I'd like, Luis, if you can start us off by telling us about ...; Created on 22 March 2021
11. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the ...; Created on 15 February 2021
12. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) Rights are earned through hard-fought struggles. And for Indigenous Peoples (IP), its fulfillment comes from the ...; Created on 17 December 2020
13. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... concerns and questions about the U.S. government’s involvement regarding the control of water resources. For more than a decade, environmental organizations and water advocates have fought for a new ...; Created on 01 December 2020
14. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... is especially critical in Honduras. According to the NGO "Global Witness", between 2010 and 2017 alone, more than 120 people who fought in defense of the environment were killed. For some weeks, this risk ...; Created on 20 April 2020
15. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and civil society. The battle against all forms of metallic mining is not over in El Salvador. The rapidly changing political situation represents a danger for environmental organizations that fought and ...; Created on 07 May 2018
16. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... yes to life!” Local efforts were key to winning this hard-fought national consensus. In the years leading up to the vote, while facing a largely unresponsive government, Salvadoran citizens, with the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
17. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... it didn’t end there – [the struggle] went national, and then it went global”. Pedro Cabezas. Given the nature of the El Salvador case, with one front being fought on the ground in Central America, and ...; Created on 23 June 2017
18. Xenia Marroquìn: “Water is not a merchandise, it is a human right”: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... with all parties to reform the article 69 of the Constitution. We also fought to recover it in April 2015, when, a fraction of the FMLN put forward a procedural exemption, to save all the years of struggle ...; Created on 30 September 2015
19. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”: (Territories Free of Mining); ... of San Jose Las Flores and San Isidro Labrador in rejecting the presence of mining exploration and exploitation in their territories. The former guerrilla stronghold in North Chalatenango has fought to ...; Created on 18 April 2015
20. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... “I used to call her ‘the little beetle’ as she was so small. As she grew up she never made any problems for anyone, her humility was what everyone saw... She married and had children, and then she fought ...; Created on 13 February 2014

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