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21. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... of millions of dollars in unearned profits. In its $400 million claim, which is currently proceeding at a World Bank Group tribunal, the Nevada-based KCA argues that the Guatemalan government failed ...; Created on 21 October 2020
22. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Juan Orlando Hernández’s National Party. The couple is the force behind some of the most important mine and port developments in Honduras and a consortium building an international airport near the capital ...; Created on 25 September 2020
23. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... can you do that if there is no water to do it with? There is no river or well nearby that we can go carry water, and we don't have the means to pay a water truck regularly. I am not working right now.” ...; Created on 11 September 2020
24. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); Massay Crisanto - The Nation It’s been nearly 50 days since five Garífuna leaders were abducted in their homes in Triunfo de la Cruz, on Honduras’s Caribbean coast. On July 18 at 5:30 AM, men wearing ...; Created on 03 September 2020
25. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... annual production that is exploited in a territory of 5,000 hectares, and that affects 22 communities, served to manufacture those 2 million watches. " Gold mine in Venezuela. Exploration work near ...; Created on 09 August 2020
26. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the presence of heavily men, wearing masks, from this group has been reported near his house. Similarly, Jaime Adali Cabrera, a member of the Agrarian Platform, has been subjected to death threats and ...; Created on 31 July 2020
27. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... at mine sites also raise fears that the virus will spread among local populations. Communities living near mines often suffer from respiratory illness or other health impacts from exposure to noise, toxic ...; Created on 23 July 2020
28. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... in shifts to keep 24-hour watch over the access gate to the “El Tambor” gold mining project. Catholic masses, community meetings and cultural activities have punctuated this nearly decade-long vigil along ...; Created on 03 May 2020
29. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... 2009 and 2018. The inhabitants of the communities near the river have, overtime, decreased the consumption of water from the lake. However, many do not have an alternative. This is the case of Ángela ...; Created on 21 April 2020
30. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the local stakeholders. More recently, the communities living near the Didipio mine claimed to have water supply problems including access to potable water, and availability for use in their homes and ...; Created on 08 March 2020
31. Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts: (Regional News); ... report, founder and chairman Ross Beaty told investors that the “world-class” Escobal mine could nearly double the company’s production of silver. But he mentioned neither the opposition of local communities ...; Created on 02 March 2020
32. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... ago, near the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala in Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mariano Abarca was shot dead in broad daylight outside of his family restaurant. It was November 27, 2009 and Mariano had ...; Created on 26 December 2019
33. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... 64 activists killed, and the Philippines, with 43. Leon Dulce, Kalikasan’s national coordinator, has spent nearly a decade recording the number of people killed while trying to protect the environment. ...; Created on 04 October 2019
34. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... near the river stream increase. Rodolfo Calles, a member of the roundtable against mining, pointed out that the new government must begin the processes of environmental remediation of the damages caused ...; Created on 18 September 2019
35. Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... every cropping. He could always catch dalag and eels in a nearby river. Every morning, fresh air coming down from the mountain greeted him. From time to time, he would join his neighbors in small-scale ...; Created on 16 September 2019
36. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... people in 2007, and since then local residents in different villages scattered throughout this municipality and nearby areas have been organised to bring its operations to a halt. "Water, apart from ...; Created on 07 May 2019
37. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... and financial machinery to restart operations at the Cerro Blanco mine, there is still a veil of secrecy and silence in the surrounding communities located near the megaproject. Worker guards the entrance ...; Created on 03 May 2019
38. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension: (Regional News); ... from Casillas, a town a few kilometres southwest of the mine, told CIM Magazine after the ruling. Abrego was one of the people from the regional resistance movement who have been camped out near the court ...; Created on 16 September 2018
39. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... Puno region in 2011 against the proposed Santa Ana mine - an open-pit mining project located near the border with Bolivia. The project was owned by the Canadian mining company Bear Creek and plans were ...; Created on 28 August 2018
40. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of inhabitants of nearby communities without sufficient water for their most basic needs; Large producers of sugar cane continue to over-exploit underground water sources, even in years of severe drought, ...; Created on 27 August 2018

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