Media coverage of the International Month of Action
SEPT: 5th: Sidney and Melbourne, Australia MUA: MUA Calls for Australian Resources Company to Drop Law Suit Trade union officials are calling on ...
... growth. A democratically elected government should not be punished for standing up for the common good.
During the month of September, please join solidarity actions taking place in Australia, Canada, ...
... the country. We also have concerns that these men have been denied their basic right to due process,” 17 U.S. members of Congress said in a letter earlier this month.
Known locally as “water defenders,” ...
... multinational mining companies.
Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...
... were killed protesting the Pacific Rim project — including Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto, who was eight months pregnant.
Ultimately, the company was denied the license on the grounds that it had failed to ...
... the capital, San Salvador, could languish in overcrowded cells for months before formal charges are filed in court. The ongoing state of emergency has suspended a wide range of civil liberties and led ...
... the harmful mining of metals,” said 20 local environmental and public health groups in a statement last month.
Bukele has a track record of launching controversial projects that ignore environmental ...
... of the month came and the workers were paid almost nothing because a large part of their salary was owed to the stores that belonged to the same company that hired them.
It was in these plantations that ...
... Last month, President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a nine-year moratorium on new mining agreements to allow in investments and boost government revenues.
But environmental groups said the move was one of the ...
GuapinolResiste
After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...
... mining projects.
Canadian firms dominate mining in Guatemala as well. Last month, a Canadian legal academic brought a case before Canada’s Federal Court, alleging that the minister of foreign affairs ...
... assassination. Events lent credibility to their suspicions: In the months after the murder, activists were flooded with death threats and two other mining opponents were gunned down.
Despite the brutality ...
... the statement states. This comes a few months after the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment appealed to Colombia and the company to protect the communities affected by Cerrejón, particularly ...
... That same month, Duterte lifted an oil exploration moratorium in what the Philippine government calls the West Philippine Sea, an area it claims in the South China Sea.
These government decisions boosted ...
... the almost-seven-year-long Pac Rim lawsuit against El Salvador at the ICSID. Pac Rim sued the Salvadoran government for not issuing them a mining permit. It took the ICSID six years and 10 months—and cost ...
... $16,000 for 19 environmental violations, including for hazardous waste.
Two months ago, DHEC said it had fined the mine $100,000 for breaking pollution rules. The mine exceeded the safe limit for mercury ...
... company discharged 9.2 micrograms per liter of cyanide in December 2020, but the monthly permit limit is 5.2 micrograms per liter.
Cyanide, used to separate gold from ore, can cause convulsions, respiratory ...
... violation. They also stressed that due to the COVID crisis, the release is urgent.
One month later, the Honduran State has not responded. The Municipal Committee, families of the defenders and their ...
... the company’s gold-mining activities.
The company used an accredited independent laboratory to test all water in and around the operation for multiple trace elements, including lead, monthly, and the ...