... Police in order to force fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day.
Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered
A posthumous award was also ...
... mountain was declared a National Park by Congress, mandating protection of water sources which serve more than 42,000 people, including the Guapinol river.
Yet the following year, Congress reduced the ...
... Award in 2015.
Tilly Metz, a Luxemburgish member of the Greens/EFA group, described the hard times human rights activists are having in Honduras. “These are two symbolic cases showing injustice and impunity ...
... Róchez, and Junior Mejía—out of their homes. They have not been seen since.
The men were kidnapped on a Saturday during which the State of Honduras restricted civilian movement due to Covid-19, allowing ...
... of the imprisoned Guapinol human rights defenders, Liss Jireth Cedillo Zúniga (7) and her friend Cristhel Alejandra Romero Portillo, holding their drawings in front of the Public Ministry in Tegucigalpa, ...
... El Tambor gold mine — or compensating the mining firm for hundreds of millions of dollars in future profits it had little hope of ever earning.
“KCA bought the project knowing there was social conflict ...
Leon Dulce
Bulatlat
A complex array of multiple crises slowly brewing for four years breached the tipping point and inundated the Philippines in just the last four and a half months. This is the story ...
... following an injunction by CALAS.
2017
May 24: CALAS launches an injunction aimed at overturning the Escobal mining license, claiming indigenous groups were not consulted, in breach of ILO 169.
Tahoe ...
... Quellaveco carried out by the Hydrogeologist Robert Moran (2002), suggest reviewing the water situation of the region in a comprehensive way because the region belongs to a desert ecosystem. Also extraction ...
... South.
Indeed, developed countries are increasingly withdrawing from or rejecting ISDS in agreements amongst themselves. For example, the European Union and Australia and New Zealand have reportedly ...