... social leaders, indigenous and farming communities who vulnerability has increased due to the record number of threats by armed groups in the midst of the COVID 19 health crisis.
"The COVID-19 pandemic ...
... show its selective application of justice. In fact, the current government refuses to investigate and prosecute those responsible for crimes against humanity committed by the Armed Forces and right-wing ...
... them to voluntarily take measures to do so.
“All around the world, people are being harmed by the business practices of Canadian companies and their subsidiaries, subcontractors and suppliers,” said ...
... one land defender in January, an armed attack against a Xinka delegate to the consultation process in April, and death threats against others. In April of this year, 3,900+ individuals signed a petition ...
... like Vidalina Morales and Antonio Pacheco of the local Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) were quickly alarmed by the dried-up springs and groundwater sources caused by the mine’s exploratory ...
... assassinated.
These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...
... were unable to confirm the specifics of the contamination because Tahoe wouldn’t let them inspect their site.
Earlier that month, environmental NGO Grufides reported that around 100 armed men attacked ...
... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance.
Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...
... by dozens of heavily armed police officers. During the second of these visits, on September 22, two Equinox Gold vice-presidents met with the state attorney on ejido land (land that is communally owned ...
... to build the mine.
KCA never lived up to regulatory requirements in Guatemala.
KCA’s mine became operational as a result of the violent repression of local communities by private and state armed forces ...
... to oppose the project was met with violence. On 7 September 2018, one young protester was shot and seriously injured when scores of armed security guards working for the mine attempted to evict the camp. ...
... of corporate environmental ethics” and dismissed the Guapinol’s water defenders as “false environmentalists.” A Pinares statement suggested, according to The Nation, “that many are armed criminals who, ...
... only state officials, authorities, and health workers to move freely. Relatives of the disappeared leaders claim that heavily armed men with bulletproof vests arrived in pick-up trucks and wearing police ...
... a government law or policy has harmed its investment.
Peru
“This is no doubt going to lead to six arbitration claims against us at ICSID [the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...
... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...
... dismissed
The false accusations maintained by the Public Ministry and the Los Pinares mining company are related to the events of September 7, 2018, when dozens of armed security guards from the mining ...
... armed security guards at the peaceful camp that had been set up a month earlier to defend the rivers that supply the community from the impacts of contamination by the mining project illegally installed ...
... were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed ...
... by armed groups in the area.
Opposition to mining projects generates great violence and repression in the communities.
Golden belt, a calamity for communities Carrizalillo is a community in the ...
... country for land and environmental defenders for the first time in this time period, with 157 defenders murdered largely by suspected government armed forces—a number 36 percent larger than the total cases ...