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21. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the car was stolen the previous day and that it contained bags of food meant to be distributed by the government. Given the situation in the area, community members “fear that the police will try to ...; Created on 31 July 2020
22. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... which legal luminaries have described as ‘worse than martial law’, threatens to further inflame an already atrocious human rights situation faced by Filipino environmental defenders. Likewise, they have ...; Created on 25 July 2020
23. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Quellaveco carried out by the Hydrogeologist Robert Moran (2002), suggest reviewing the water situation of the region in a comprehensive way because the region belongs to a desert ecosystem. Also extraction ...; Created on 22 July 2020
24. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... right to water. Yet, no results have been obtained. "This situation is worrisome. In fact, in 2010 El Salvador and the United Nations (UN) recognized that safeguarding water as a human right is essential ...; Created on 17 June 2020
25. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... Court ruling, the lawyer Rafael Maldonado filed a legal action to promote the execution of the protection ruling. This appeal was also accepted by the court. Again, this situation highlights the chain ...; Created on 12 June 2020
26. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... within the national territory. With the slogan "For the planet, water and territory", the XX Ecological Walk was carried out online given the current health and climate situation. The online Ecological ...; Created on 06 June 2020
27. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... urgent law. However, we are appalled at the decision to start from scratch, once again, annulling the important agreements and progress made in 2013-2015 by the sitting Commission. Faced with this situation, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
28. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... dispossession of water resources has been committed at the expense of the majority of the population who live in situations of vulnerability. These crimes have been committed even more in rural communities ...; Created on 20 April 2020
29. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation of seven environmental activists who have been held in preventive detention since last September at the Olanchito ...; Created on 20 April 2020
30. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... the environment, the regional political situation of Central America reveals a continuous weakening of the institutions that guarantee the rights of the population and a systematic pattern of violence ...; Created on 26 December 2019
31. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... Dominguez hopes that winning the Letelier-Moffitt Award will increase the profile of their struggle and it will inspire international human rights organizations to keep their attention on the Lower Aguan situation, ...; Created on 24 October 2019
32. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the ombudsman can investigate and expose violations, “we will continue to have egregious situations that embarrass our nation and diminish our brand,” McKay added. Six months after surviving his assassination ...; Created on 04 October 2019
33. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Morales the authorities of the MARN must explain the legal situation of OceanaGold mining company in the department of Cabañas. The Anti-Mining Law established that the Guiriceros had two years to abandon ...; Created on 18 September 2019
34. Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... said their current situation is far from what he dreamt he would be retiring to; far from what he and his ancestors invested to their rich mountainous lands; far from what they really deserve. The luscious ...; Created on 16 September 2019
35. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to these pressing concerns around the threat of Oceanagold’s contract renewal, the Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement said it plans to “spread awareness over the situation, generate support and solidarity, and ...; Created on 16 September 2019
36. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... which according to its website is the world’s second-largest producer of silver. It owns and operates six mines in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and now Guatemala. “The situation in agriculture is ...; Created on 07 May 2019
37. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... organizations and communities that have denounced the abandonment of mines in a state of contamination by unscrupulous mining companies; Deepen the dialogue and analysis on the current situation of criminalization ...; Created on 05 May 2019
38. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Asunción Mita. The objective of the meeting was to analyze the situation after executives of the mining consortium refused to provide access to the facilities of the mine ...; Created on 03 May 2019
39. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... This alarming situation has led international organizations, such as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the Latin American Water ...; Created on 27 August 2018
40. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... has been increasingly vocal about a dire human rights situation in this country: the access to fresh water. In 2017, the archdiocese, along with the Jesuit-run University of Central America, spearheaded ...; Created on 08 May 2018

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