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1. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 90 percent of surface water has been contaminated by industry, agriculture, and underdeveloped sewage systems — it is, as Thomas McDonagh and Aldo Orellana López put it, “a water stressed country.” The ...; Created on 06 April 2023
3. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... could threaten mangrove ecosystems. A number of highway projects are also raising concerns about deforestation. A more unorthodox bet on economic growth was making bitcoin a legal tender alongside the ...; Created on 03 April 2023
4. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... during the war, but the State did not respond for 30 years to their demands for justice and has now opted to prosecute five of its members. This system treats victims as perpetrators and perpetrators as ...; Created on 13 January 2023
5. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... waste systems, recently published by the Heinrich Boll Foundation confirms the concerns expressed by environmental organizations. Dr. Dina Lopez, a retired vulcanologist from the University of Ohio, has ...; Created on 22 September 2022
6. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... water, and ecosystems "is irremediable and irreversible" due to the intensive use of large amounts of cyanide and arsenic to separate the gold from the rest of the removed material. In 14 years, according ...; Created on 12 June 2022
7. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... water, and ecosystems "is irremediable and irreversible" due to the intensive use of large amounts of cyanide and arsenic to separate the gold from the rest of the removed material. In 14 years, according ...; Created on 12 June 2022
8. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... damages to the environment, water and ecosystems. 9. That the company BLUESTONE RESOURCES still does not have the approval of the environmental license for open pit mining as its Environmental Impact ...; Created on 12 June 2022
9. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... (Charter Cities as the ZEDE have also been called) have become the death blow to make us disappear as a people. As such, we promoted several cases before the Inter-American Human Rights System. We have ...; Created on 25 December 2021
10. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Water Systems. It maintains the privatizing spirit in which it was presented last June by the President of the Republic. It is a Law that deepens water injustice as it includes mechanisms that will generate ...; Created on 23 December 2021
11. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... turn, it was international organizations who helped members of la mesa navigate the international human rights system and helped to echo the calls for justice to the international public opinion. ...; Created on 29 June 2021
12. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... awaits the peoples of Southern Mindanao. The project will potentially impact five major river systems: Buayan, Taplan, Padada, Alip, and Manteo, and as the rivers flow, the impacts will be felt in Ligawasan ...; Created on 02 June 2021
13. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... more accurately describes Canada – specifically Toronto – as “the belly of the beast.” It is the epicentre of the global mining industry, precisely because the systemic violence that plagues the industry ...; Created on 12 May 2021
14. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... take on a more global significance. The climate crisis adds a dose of dread to a question long pondered by environmentalists: How can poor countries and communities protect the environment when the system ...; Created on 23 April 2021
15. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... territories, even disturbing the dreams of spiritual physicians who can no longer guide their communities as a result. In addition to the systematic violation of the rights of communities and environmental ...; Created on 22 April 2021
16. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to Mongabay. “Lifting the moratorium exposes this administration’s support for mining projects that will impact our water, food supply, forest, biodiversity, Indigenous communities and fragile island ecosystems.” ...; Created on 15 April 2021
17. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... he said. That the company identified the wastewater problems itself “is a demonstration of the environmental monitoring system .... working the way it should,’’ his statement said. “It exists to help ...; Created on 30 March 2021
18. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...; Created on 28 March 2021
19. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... - Danilo Morale, sGeneral Director of the System for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice Operators. E-mail: proteccion.ddhh.hn@gmail.com, analsisderiesgodgsp@gmail.com ...; Created on 14 March 2021
20. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has allowed a group of investors from the Washington DC-based firm NeWay Capital to establish an independent governance system as an experiment with privatized jurisdictions. Hondurans are facing a ...; Created on 15 February 2021

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