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1. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); TeleSur Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war. On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economic Development ...; Created on 19 January 2023
2. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); Massay Crisanto - The Nation It’s been nearly 50 days since five Garífuna leaders were abducted in their homes in Triunfo de la Cruz, on Honduras’s Caribbean coast. On July 18 at 5:30 AM, men wearing ...; Created on 03 September 2020
3. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a boost Monday as leaders of the Catholic church in the Central American country presented a bill in Congress aimed at blocking mining and protecting citizens from “serious contamination.” “The objective ...; Created on 10 February 2017
4. Anti-mining leaders asks presidential candidates to make explicit their position on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in Salvador demanded all presidential candidates to publicly state their parties' position on the issue of mining in the country. “Mining is one ...; Created on 21 November 2013
5. Government of El Salvador asked once again to take leadership in banning metallic mining: (Cerro Blanco); San Salvador, February 4th, 2012 The NationalRoundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador(La Mesa) reiterated in a press conference this morning its petition for the Salvadoran Government to introduce ...; Created on 04 February 2013
6. Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali: (Mining and Human Rights); Salvadoran Indigenous leader Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali BY ROBIN LLEWELLYN • NOV 6, 2012 "This is not Cabañas," said Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali, gesturing around the room and out the window at the wooded ...; Created on 19 November 2012
7. Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders: (Mining and Human Rights); Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders Wednesday April 11, six members of the 18th Street gang were sentenced to between 30 and 145 years in jail ...; Created on 18 April 2012
8. 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
9. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... law was passed in the a law to create a Directorate of Energy Mines and Hydrocarbons. Community leaders in Cabañas have also denounced the presence of employees of mining companies offering long-term leases ...; Created on 08 April 2023
10. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the five community leaders arrested on January 11) have reported the presence of unknown individuals offering to buy land and fund social programs, and two mayors in the region claim to have communicated ...; Created on 06 April 2023
11. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... which has been widely used by the Bukele regime to lock up more than 60,000 alleged gang members since March. Rights groups fear that the community leaders, who are being held at a police station in ...; Created on 04 April 2023
12. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... massacre in 1980, where 30 people were assassinated and 189 were disappeared), the government is now re-victimizing the community by targeting their leaders, who have been outspoken against the policies ...; Created on 20 January 2023
13. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... based in Washington D.C. in the United States, which for almost six decades has been conducting research and supporting progressive social movements and leaders. In an interview with Mongabay Latam, ...; Created on 25 December 2021
14. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Jean Symes, from the feminist social justice organization Inter Pares. “We are calling on Canadian lawmakers to catch up to global leaders by adopting our model legislation, a comprehensive law that would ...; Created on 21 May 2021
15. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... killings of Indigenous leaders, the classification of activists as terrorists, and the bombing of Indigenous schools,” Asuncion said. From 2010-2016, at least 73 Indigenous peoples were killed in the ...; Created on 12 May 2021
16. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the company to respect the Indigenous Xinka people’s right to be freely consulted without violence and threats, and to immediately cease interference in their communities. Indigenous leaders such as Secretary-Treasurer ...; Created on 12 May 2021
17. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...; Created on 06 May 2021
18. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... favor of their opponents. In the course of their struggle, the water defenders face trials of biblical proportions, including the brutal and unsolved murder of their leader Marcelo Rivera, a teacher ...; Created on 23 April 2021
19. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... in which to be a defender. 64 community and social leaders were killed in 2019 according to reports from Global Witness, while Front Line Defenders affirms that of the 177 Human Rights defenders murdered ...; Created on 22 April 2021
20. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Manobo leader on the southern island of Mindanao, who was murdered after opposing illegal mining in his community in the Pantaron mountain range. The Carmen Pit, an open-pit copper mine site in Toledo, ...; Created on 15 April 2021

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