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1. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... social leaders, indigenous and farming communities who vulnerability has increased due to the record number of threats by armed groups in the midst of the COVID 19 health crisis. "The COVID-19 pandemic ...; Created on 31 July 2020
2. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... show its selective application of justice. In fact, the current government refuses to investigate and prosecute those responsible for crimes against humanity committed by the Armed Forces and right-wing ...; Created on 13 January 2023
3. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... them to voluntarily take measures to do so. “All around the world, people are being harmed by the business practices of Canadian companies and their subsidiaries, subcontractors and suppliers,” said ...; Created on 21 May 2021
4. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 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 ...; Created on 17 May 2021
5. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... like Vidalina Morales and Antonio Pacheco of the local Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) were quickly alarmed by the dried-up springs and groundwater sources caused by the mine’s exploratory ...; Created on 11 April 2021
6. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... assassinated. These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...; Created on 28 March 2021
7. 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
8. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance. Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...; Created on 17 December 2020
9. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... by dozens of heavily armed police officers. During the second of these visits, on September 22, two Equinox Gold vice-presidents met with the state attorney on ejido land (land that is communally owned ...; Created on 28 November 2020
10. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... to build the mine. KCA never lived up to regulatory requirements in Guatemala. KCA’s mine became operational as a result of the violent repression of local communities by private and state armed forces ...; Created on 21 October 2020
11. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to oppose the project was met with violence. On 7 September 2018, one young protester was shot and seriously injured when scores of armed security guards working for the mine attempted to evict the camp. ...; Created on 07 October 2020
12. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of corporate environmental ethics” and dismissed the Guapinol’s water defenders as “false environmentalists.” A Pinares statement suggested, according to The Nation, “that many are armed criminals who, ...; Created on 25 September 2020
13. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... only state officials, authorities, and health workers to move freely. Relatives of the disappeared leaders claim that heavily armed men with bulletproof vests arrived in pick-up trucks and wearing police ...; Created on 03 September 2020
14. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... a government law or policy has harmed its investment. Peru “This is no doubt going to lead to six arbitration claims against us at ICSID [the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 01 September 2020
15. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...; Created on 24 August 2020
16. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); ... dismissed The false accusations maintained by the Public Ministry and the Los Pinares mining company are related to the events of September 7, 2018, when dozens of armed security guards from the mining ...; Created on 24 August 2020
17. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... armed security guards at the peaceful camp that had been set up a month earlier to defend the rivers that supply the community from the impacts of contamination by the mining project illegally installed ...; Created on 18 August 2020
18. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed ...; Created on 17 August 2020
19. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... by armed groups in the area. Opposition to mining projects generates great violence and repression in the communities. Golden belt, a calamity for communities Carrizalillo is a community in the ...; Created on 09 August 2020
20. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... country for land and environmental defenders for the first time in this time period, with 157 defenders murdered largely by suspected government armed forces—a number 36 percent larger than the total cases ...; Created on 25 July 2020

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