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1. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Guardian Nina Lakhani Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...; Created on 04 April 2023
2. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador. Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas ...; Created on 20 January 2023
3. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...; Created on 11 May 2021
4. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021). Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...; Created on 11 April 2021
5. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); Guapinol Resiste On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders. In its resolution ...; Created on 14 March 2021
6. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined this global community of water defenders when representatives ...; Created on 14 January 2021
7. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); CRITERIO Tegucigalpa. - Eight environmental defenders of the Atlantic zone of Honduras have been in prison for 15 months due to their opposition to a mining project which is plagued with irregularities. ...; Created on 28 December 2020
8. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 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, ...; Created on 01 September 2020
9. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); The Court of Appeals ruling confirms Honduras as the most dangerous country for environmental defenders in the world. On August 15, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Public and Common Goods ...; Created on 20 August 2020
10. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); Democracy Now At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed ...; Created on 17 August 2020
11. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); CONEXIHON Washington, D.C. (Conexihon) .- Hundreds of national and international civil society organizations called on the government of Honduras and Colombia to guarantee the human rights of defenders, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
12. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... against the fishermen and journalists who have covered the case intensified and turned into criminal complaint actions, based on falsehoods and deceits against the defenders of life and water. Dozens of ...; Created on 12 June 2020
13. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and environment defenders in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. These violations are characterized as occurring in a time when the capacity of defenders to assert their democratic rights are severely ...; Created on 21 April 2020
14. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); San José, February 27, 2020.- Today, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) argued before the Honduran Court of Appeals that the deprivation of liberty of seven defenders of the Guapinol ...; Created on 20 April 2020
15. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... to verify reports of human rights violations against environmental defenders who oppose the mining project in the municipality of Tocoa, Colón. The project is the property of Lenir Pérez, a businessman ...; Created on 20 April 2020
16. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... been "Criminalization of environmental defenders of the movements of the Central American region". The meeting was carried out in the municipality of Ataco in the department of Ahuachapán, El Salvador, ...; Created on 26 December 2019
17. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); Jen Moore On November 27, 2019, the life and struggle of Mariano Abarca were honored with the presentation of the first award for environmental defense in Chiapas to be presented in his name. His brother, ...; Created on 26 December 2019
18. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ACAFREMIN Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...; Created on 26 December 2019
19. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... against environmental defenders who opposed the mine resulted in the indictment of 32 members of the Committee for the Defense of the Commons and Natural Resources of Tocoa. Originally, the Honduran judicial ...; Created on 24 October 2019
20. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); Natashya Gutierrez and Anya Zoledziowski - VICE Not only do Canadian mines in the Philippines degrade the environment and displace Indigenous communities, activists say, eco-defenders are targeted by ...; Created on 04 October 2019

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