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1. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); By Robin Oisín Llewellyn First published in http://mondediplo.com/blogs/el-salvador-violence-and-impunity The bullets buried into the walls of the room within a foot of their intended victim, in El ...; Created on 13 February 2014
2. New acts of violence and intimidation against members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mining operation in El Salvador. Throughout these years various expressions of violence and abuses against people who make up our coalition have been committed without proper investigations and successful ...; Created on 09 July 2013
3. 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
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... forces during the 1980s to remain in impunity, while punishing the leaders of communities, like Santa Marta, who bore the brunt of that very violence." Original source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/el-salvador-water-defenders ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... This historic victory of a country known primarily for its worrisome levels of social violence, overpopulation, migration and environmental deterioration, rendered El Salvador the first nation in the world ...; Created on 14 December 2021
6. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of the communities that led to the acts of violence and assassination of 5 environmentalists in Cabañas and the strategies these communities utilized to forge a robust national and international movement ...; Created on 29 June 2021
7. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Harris is traveling to Guatemala this week to discuss solutions to the poverty, violence, and corruption that are among the driving forces of migration. Contributing to these drivers are neoliberal arrangements, ...; Created on 07 June 2021
8. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... help respond to the widespread and egregious abuses linked to Canadian companies including forced labour, sexual violence, and murder.” Under the CNCA’s proposed law, if a company causes harm or fails ...; Created on 21 May 2021
9. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... its involvement in the Navidad project given clear and unwavering social opposition in Chubut. Rising tensions and violence against community members is also a concern at the company’s suspended Escobal ...; Created on 17 May 2021
10. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... more accurately describes Canada – specifically Toronto – as “the belly of the beast.” It is the epicentre of the global mining industry, precisely because the systemic violence that plagues the industry ...; Created on 12 May 2021
11. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); Counterpunch Jen Moore In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
12. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... for Human Rights, Oxfam and the Canadian Peace Brigades. Under the Geneva Convention rules, the international community should condemn the state’s violence against environmental defenders and accept ...; Created on 06 May 2021
13. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... OceanaGold’s private security force also used violence against community members. The commission also found that the company had erected fences and checkpoints on roads used by locals, as well as using ...; Created on 22 April 2021
14. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... hold Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, national officials, and members of the police and military accountable for these crimes will fuel widespread poverty and violence and force more families ...; Created on 23 February 2021
15. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... resource extraction system that devastates environments and communities in the Global South and suppresses popular resistance through violence and coercion. Canadian Mining Operations In Peru Canadian ...; Created on 21 January 2021
16. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... movement and defeat policy violence.” —Rev. Dr. William Barber II, national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and author of The Third Reconstruction “When the story of the courageous Salvadoran ...; Created on 14 January 2021
17. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... has generated violence and conflict, causing at least seven deaths to date and the prosecution of 32 community leaders. The denial for environmentalists to wait for their trial in freedom contrasts with ...; Created on 28 December 2020
18. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... can sometimes be enough to put communities in serious danger of legal persecution or violence. The community was quick to react, denouncing the company for continuing to treat them in an openly hostile ...; Created on 28 November 2020
19. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); Jennifer Avila y Danielle Mackey | Univision An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park. Discreetly ...; Created on 28 November 2020
20. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 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. ...; Created on 07 October 2020

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