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21. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); International groups denounce US mining company’s multi-million dollar claim against Guatemala and express solidarity with communities peacefully defending land and life at ‘La Puya’ (CLICK HERE TO ...; Created on 26 February 2019
22. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... five “water defenders” say there’s insufficient evidence in the case and that they’re protected from prosecution by a post-war reconciliation law. The arrest of five environmental activists fighting ...; Created on 20 December 2023
23. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); International week of action to defend El Salvador´s mining ban and demand the release of the five Water Defenders of Santa Marta As social organizations in El Salvador recently celebrated the sixth ...; Created on 08 April 2023
24. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... prohibition is facing new threats. On January 11, the Salvadoran government ordered the arrest of five prominent anti-mining activists and water defenders: Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, ...; Created on 06 April 2023
25. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...; Created on 03 April 2023
26. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... about possible criminalization actions against environmental and human rights defenders of Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, Guatemala, and we urge the Guatemalan government and the company Bluestone Resources INC ...; Created on 21 September 2022
27. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... crises. First of all, we have migrant caravans. Honduras is also the most violent and insecure country for human rights defenders; it became a narco-government, where the president´s brother has been tried ...; Created on 25 December 2021
28. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of strategic aquifers while water defenders in localities like Valle de Ángel in Apopa, the La Labor community in Ahuachapán and many others are accused of terrorism, persecuted and imprisoned. Faced ...; Created on 14 December 2021
29. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... with the most mining-related deaths among environmental defenders. Executive Order 130 cites new fiscal regulations and environmental safeguards but Kalikasan PNE said the regulatory framework "remains ...; Created on 27 May 2021
30. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.” Environment defenders, ...; Created on 24 May 2021
31. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... severely wounded. He is a national spokesperson for the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance. Claver knows first-hand the dangers facing land defenders in the Philippines who resist mining and other industrial ...; Created on 12 May 2021
32. 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
33. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... Honduras is the deadliest place in the world for environmental defenders. Hundreds of them have been killed since 2009, including the Indigenous environmental leader Berta Càceres, who was assassinated ...; Created on 06 May 2021
34. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... is stacked against them? In The Water Defenders, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh seek answers to that dilemma. The book chronicles the improbable victory of grassroots activists in El Salvador who ...; Created on 23 April 2021
35. 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
36. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... environment defenders who were exercising their right to freedom of assembly to object to the continued operations in the Didipio mine, adding that the police used “unnecessary and disproportionate force”. ...; Created on 22 April 2021
37. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... The mining sector was the deadliest in the world for environmental and land defenders in 2019, according to Global Witness; the Philippines has the most mining-related killings that year, and activists ...; Created on 15 April 2021
38. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world to ban mining to save its precious rivers. Their battle cries: “Water, not gold” and “Water for life.” In the process of their 13-year fight, these water defenders organized a national coalition ...; Created on 05 April 2021
39. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the government under the rigged rules that govern investment across borders. As we describe in our new book, The Water Defenders, communities across El Salvador fought back. They studied the science ...; Created on 28 March 2021
40. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marco Werman spoke with attorney Luis Parada, who led El Salvador’s defense team in a mining lawsuit at the World Bank, and Robin Broad, a co-author of the book, "The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People ...; Created on 22 March 2021

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