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21. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... as a leader of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of revolutionary group Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Gloria is the chairperson of KATRIBUMMU, a Lumad (indigenous people in Mindanao) ...; Created on 21 April 2020
22. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... to defend the territory where they live and their water sources. The victims and the witnesses interviewed identified the military, police and local armed groups, employed as security guards by the company, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
23. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... efforts to organize at the community level, they have faced defamation, criminalization, arbitrary detention, physical threats from armed groups and forced displacement. Internationally, in the ongoing ...; Created on 26 December 2019
24. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... more than fifteen hundred military personnel and police patrols of the Honduran government armed with tanks and heavy weapons into Tocoa. The state security forces proceeded later to forcibly dismantle ...; Created on 24 October 2019
25. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... warning, a dark van pulled in front of them and two armed men with rifles stepped out and opened fire. Claver was shot three times in the shoulder and once in the stomach. His wife was shot seven times ...; Created on 04 October 2019
26. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... on its commitment to create an office of an independent ombudsperson that would be able to investigate allegations of abuse at Canadian mine sites and get redress for communities harmed by Canadian mining ...; Created on 05 May 2019
27. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... and to open ditches that alarmed the population. But according to Sister Teresa, the decision of the local community development association to ban mining, and the support from the local government were ...; Created on 14 November 2017
28. Communities Call on Local Representatives to Approve Anti-Mining Regulation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the past armed conflict and it has an abundant ecological diversity that is currently encouraged by local governments through sustainable development initiatives that promote the protection and conservation ...; Created on 10 February 2017
29. Fifth referendum on mining is called in Cinquera, Cabañas: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... located in a mountain region with a rich biological diversity and a history of organized resistance that developed during the armed conflict in the 80s. Strong reasons for communities, local government ...; Created on 03 January 2017
30. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the armed conflict during the 1980s as a refugee in Mesa Grande, Honduras, and is now a member of the Santa Marta Community, expressed her joy at the result of the arbitration award and said that together ...; Created on 10 November 2016
31. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... km to the East of San Salvador. In the mine of San Sebastian, in the Department of La Union, the US company Commerce Group mined gold until the outbreak of the armed conflict at the beginning of the 1980s ...; Created on 03 February 2016
32. IUDOP: 77% of the Salvadorean population asks for metal mining to be prohibited: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... northern triangle to prevent the country from being further harmed by the actions of other governments. translated from: http://www.diariocolatino.com/el-77-de-la-poblacion-dice-que-en-el-salvador-debe-prohibirse-la-mineria-metalica-iudop/ ...; Created on 17 July 2015
33. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Jose Santos Rodriguez (husband of Dora Alicia Sorto, and an outspoken mining opponent), and the two armed police guards. An ambush had been carefully planned at a switch back in the road, and at least ...; Created on 30 December 2014
34. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... he drove the same road on 28 July 2009, a pickup truck overtook and forced him to stop, before three armed men dragged him from his car. One asked whether they were to shoot him there and was told No, ...; Created on 13 February 2014
35. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); ... release by the Environmental Alliance of El Salvador. "We are also alarmed by the lack of discussion on the threats posed by large scale metal mining projects, the negative impacts of the indiscriminate ...; Created on 20 January 2014
36. Presidential candidates fail environmental agenda: (Media Releases); ... candidates and political parties participating in the current electoral campaign. We are also alarmed by the lack of discussion on the threats posed by large scale metal mining projects, the negative impacts ...; Created on 09 January 2014
37. Environmental Alliance of El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... for Feb. 2014. Alarmed by this lack of discussion on issues related to the protection, promotion and implementation of the human rights to water and adequate food, and the ominous threat to the environment ...; Created on 12 December 2013
38. El Salvador suffers Australia's maleficent miner: (Water no Gold); ... by companies from developed countries have no say in the decisions that will affect their health and livelihood, and the differences between those who will benefit from mining and those who will be harmed ...; Created on 03 December 2013
39. Cabañas 2012 Sign On Letter: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... planning of the crimes, and the use of weapons supposedly only available to the Armed Forces are some of the factors they argue should be considered in the investigations. However, from the beginning ...; Created on 24 April 2012
40. Crime in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Quintanilla (of Radio Victoria) and Pineda) a message which said if we did not keep our mouths shut, what happened to Marcelo would happen to us.” December 20 four men armed with M-16 weapons ambushed ...; Created on 20 March 2012

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