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1. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... director at the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), told Common Dreams: "Under ordinary circumstances, the arrests of internationally recognized water defenders would be major ...; Created on 20 January 2023
2. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... offices in the municipality of Guacotecti, according to a statement published by the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America (CDHAL). These community leaders were arrested by means of a judicial ...; Created on 19 January 2023
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... young people have disappeared. Given the lack of application of justice in the country, we created the Garífuna Committee for the Forced Investigation of Youth (Comité Garífuna de Investigación Forzada ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... to deny citizen participation by not recognizing the territorial watershed committee structure proposed by social organizations. This Law is generic as it does not try to resolve the crisis situation ...; Created on 23 December 2021
5. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... At least four UN bodies have urged Ottawa to hold its companies accountable for their international operations. As the UN Human Rights Committee noted in 2015: The State party should (a) enhance the ...; Created on 07 May 2021
6. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... road to the mine. In response, community members in Tocoa, including Morazán, established the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods to campaign against the dispossession of natural ...; Created on 06 May 2021
7. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... violent displacement during the civil war. Among the allies the water defenders won over were a legislator from the conservative ARENA party who led a key committee in El Salvador’s Congress, a prosecutor ...; Created on 23 April 2021
8. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violation. They also stressed that due to the COVID crisis, the release is urgent. One month later, the Honduran State has not responded. The Municipal Committee, families of the defenders and their ...; Created on 14 March 2021
9. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of deeply alarming corruption and human rights abuses being committed at the highest levels of the Honduran government,” said Merkley, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “A failure to ...; Created on 23 February 2021
10. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... oxide mine. By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...; Created on 22 February 2021
11. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... services and pays a determined royalty to the Council. Any semblance of local democracy in the Próspera charter is undermined by the power of the Committee for the Adoption of Best Practices (CAMP) over ...; Created on 15 February 2021
12. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Martínez Díaz - are members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa. They are imprisoned for their participation in a peaceful protest camp against a mining company, whose ...; Created on 29 September 2020
13. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods were victims of a defamation campaign while they were in Washington to receive an international human rights award for their environmental activism. Pinares ...; Created on 25 September 2020
14. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... August 24. The date has passed without appropriate government action. The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has also issued a statement demanding an exhaustive search for the disappeared Garífuna ...; Created on 03 September 2020
15. 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
16. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... de León and the Social and Popular Assembly filed an unconstitutionality action and the International Commission of Jurists, the Peasant Committee of the Altiplano, and the deputy Aldo Dávila, presented ...; Created on 22 July 2020
17. Status of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water: (Regional News); Twitter This Wednesday, July 1st, the organizations that make up the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, presented a letter addressed to the deputies of the Committee on the Environment ...; Created on 03 July 2020
18. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of the National Alliance Against Water Privatization, also pointed out that in the committee on Legislation and Constitutional Matters there are four draft constitutional reforms to recognize the human ...; Created on 17 June 2020
19. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of the General water Law. The proposal contains of three elements: The articles approved by the Committee on the Environment and Climate Change between 2013 and 2015; A modified and widely agreed-upon ...; Created on 20 April 2020
20. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... There must be an advisory council made up of 14 people from the agro-industry, agricultural cooperatives, industrial sector, tourism, indigenous groups, students, and regional watershed committees. All ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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