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1. Case Studies: Investor-State Attacks on Public Interest Policies: (ISDS); ... various policies, in cases ranging from tobacco to mining. This report discusses a selection of the many investor-state attacks on public policies that have occurred globally. http://www.citizen.org/documents/egregious-investor-state-attacks-case-studies.pdf ...; Created on 30 April 2016
2. Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas January 2012 A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months ...; Created on 12 March 2012
3. New Threats and Attacks in Cabanas: (Mining and Human Rights); A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months without violence or intimidation. On Friday January 20th, ...; Created on 12 February 2012
4. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... governments’ strategies aimed at undermining community and civil society organizations. In this case, attacks against the staff of DES could be related to the intentions of the current government to reopen ...; Created on 13 January 2023
5. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the context of the consultation that worsens social division. This is evidenced by a rise in violent attacks against participants in the consultation process, including an attempted assassination against ...; Created on 17 May 2021
6. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to Guatemalan authorities and signed by nearly 200 organizations concerned over the recent attacks and threats against defenders, Pan American Silver wrote that it continues “community relations activities ...; Created on 12 May 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalization, social media attacks and constant threats. Several residents have been forced to flee Honduras to escape criminal persecution. Meanwhile, the state uses corruption and police repression ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... payment of his salary, added to the risk of being a security employee. In El Salvador, this work involves a high risk of threats, physical attacks or even death by gangs. "(At the beginning) I was worried ...; Created on 05 January 2021
9. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners. The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...; Created on 17 December 2020
10. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the attacks against Yoni Rivas of the Agrarian Platform and the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA), who is based in the Lower Aguán Region is currently unable to leave the area due to the curfew, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
11. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of water or environmental resources. And concretely, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, has also had to face attacks and accusations and discredit from the economic leadership, and ...; Created on 17 June 2020
12. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... communities of San Isidro Cabañas, to oppose metal projects. That opposition caused mining companies, allied with the local right-wing government, to organize attacks on our leaders,” expressed the representative ...; Created on 26 December 2019
13. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... responsible for kidnappings, death threats, and attacks with firearms against members of the resistance. In November 2018, A public relations campaign led by local politicians, corporate media and businessmen ...; Created on 24 October 2019
14. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... peasant rights. The case of Walter Aduviri and the Aymara people is emblematic of the attacks and threats faced by communities that stand up to defend their basic resources throughout Latin America ...; Created on 28 August 2018
15. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... opposed the project, as well as numerous threats and attacks. Finally the arbitration proceedings showed other states that when a government decides in favour of the interests or positions of its population, ...; Created on 28 December 2016
16. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Mesa). “Pac Rim's presence in El Salvador has fomented local conflict, which has led to threats, attacks, and assassinations. We want OceanaGold, and all the misery it has caused, out of El Salvador, and ...; Created on 14 October 2016
17. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... this disease strongly attacks the nervous and immune systems. “The company has not provided the supply of clean water to the population. Instead, we have to buy the expensive water that comes in bottles”, ...; Created on 03 February 2016
18. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has always denied any involvement in the attacks and murders, blaming criminal gangs; however, it has never shown any sympathy with the victims. The murder of his brother was never prosecuted, neither ...; Created on 03 January 2016
19. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... then called to his cell to ask whether anyone in the house had died. Murders, threats, and attacks have followed the environmental activists who oppose a gold mining project in the Cabañas department ...; Created on 13 May 2015
20. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... cousin was one of three environmentalists killed in 2009, and his daughter was injured in another of the attacks. All those killed had campaigned against the Canadian mining group Pacific Rim, which explored ...; Created on 13 February 2014

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