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1. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); Global Voices One of the most essential aspects of COVID-19 prevention is regularly washing your hands; however, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are facing COVID-19 without reliable access to water. ...; Created on 11 September 2020
2. Xenia Marroquìn: “Water is not a merchandise, it is a human right”: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... will be holding the members of parliament accountable. The problem is that they consider water as a merchandise and not as a fundamental human right. What do you think of this decision? It is ...; Created on 30 September 2015
3. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); A new amicus brief supports human rights and environmental protection in El Salvador’s battle to uphold environmental laws against Pac Rim Mining Corporation’s lawsuit. By Lily Simon First published ...; Created on 06 August 2014
4. Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali: (Mining and Human Rights); Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali BY ROBIN LLEWELLYN • NOV 6, 2012 "This is not Cabañas," said Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali, gesturing around the room and out the window at the wooded ...; Created on 19 November 2012
5. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... the State does not want to recognize it. It is very clear that at this moment the Honduran State is going to do everything possible to deprive the Garífuna community of its territory to hand it over ...; Created on 25 December 2021
6. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); Peace Brigades International Brent Patterson On May 21, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in the symbolic act of handing over machinery to the mining company ...; Created on 22 May 2021
7. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); SPRING Samantha Ponting “I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation ...; Created on 12 May 2021
8. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... four years before creating the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE). After a delay of two more years, CORE has finally started taking cases. But it is unable to compel firms to hand ...; Created on 07 May 2021
9. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... disasters. Duterte -- who had previously threatened to shut down the mining sector completely -- is facing growing criticism over his handling of the pandemic that has crippled the economy and thrown ...; Created on 05 May 2021
10. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and holding U.S. companies to the same standards. It would also entail demanding more even-handed justice in disputes between governments and foreign investors, including the possibility of eliminating ...; Created on 23 April 2021
11. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and strong coalition. We learn that a right-wing environmental minister, Hugo Barrera, handed the water defenders an essential bit of legal strategy, and a conservative archbishop became an anti-mining ...; Created on 11 April 2021
12. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... calling the mine’s presence “really aggravating..’’ Estridge was among a handful of people to speak this past week against the Haile Gold Mine’s plan to expand so that it can dig more gold from the ...; Created on 02 April 2021
13. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... first-hand about abuses by the same mining company, OceanaGold, in his province. Against extraordinary opposition, these communities convinced their government in 2017 to become the first in the world ...; Created on 28 March 2021
14. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... organized. And he heard firsthand about the risks, about the use of cyanide, about how you had to go through several tons of rock to get to one gram of gold. And as the head of ARENA delegation told me ...; Created on 22 March 2021
15. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... “The United States must stand against kleptocracy and corruption, which so often go hand in glove with human rights abuses and other criminality,” said Whitehouse. “This legislation sends a message that ...; Created on 23 February 2021
16. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... most importantly, the powerful and savvy dedication of ordinary people and their communities, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh have given us a terrific play-by-play handbook of how David can, in fact, beat ...; Created on 14 January 2021
17. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... agriculture is the amount of work it requires “I cultivated organic and I saw that it gave me little surplus. You need a large amount, you have to add a good handful (of organic fertilizer) and I realised ...; Created on 05 January 2021
18. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... held in the morning outside the Tocoa courts, the team of defense attorneys questioned the handling of the case and demanded the immediate release of the water defenders. The lawyer and human rights ...; Created on 28 December 2020
19. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); ... bay of Lake Titicaca has been going on for many years. In that time, the different government ministries have made many commitments, but none of them has been fulfilled. On the other hand, Yolanda Zurita, ...; Created on 28 December 2020
20. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... the members of the Tribunal are appointed, Peru is likely to use the “clean hands doctrine” to allege lack of jurisdiction. In doing so, Peru will have to prove that the acts of corruption that it alleges ...; Created on 19 December 2020

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