... company discharged 9.2 micrograms per liter of cyanide in December 2020, but the monthly permit limit is 5.2 micrograms per liter.
Cyanide, used to separate gold from ore, can cause convulsions, respiratory ...
... 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 ...
Guapinol Resiste
On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders.
In its resolution ...
PBI
Brent Patterson
On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...
... has established by way of the Próspera charter within the parameters of autonomy provided to them in the ZEDE law. Implications of the Próspera governance system include an erosion of popular sovereignty, ...
... Mine, owned by the Australian-company OceanaGold, is an open-pit digging operation and one of the largest gold mines in the eastern United States, comparable in scale to some western U.S. mines..
Located ...
... in the Great Lakes, home to a fifth of the world’s water, is a parallel struggle, and we are inspired by the people from the south—the Eagle and the Condor meet again. Water protectors are the heroes of ...
... We believe that the protection of the environment is more paramount than the interest of OGPI,” said Padilla in a text message.
“No less than President Duterte expressed this concern when he visited ...
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In 2014, the Association for Economic and Social Development (Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico y Social, ADES in its Spanish acronym), a community organization located in Cabañas, began promoting ...
... the community suffered air and water pollution as well as damages to the forests, forsaking the locals’ livelihood and health.
In a statement, local environmental group Alyansa ng Novo Vizcayano para ...
... also handed themselves in a few months later, but paradoxically, the judge issued a pre-trial detention order.
No evidence of the alleged crimes having taken place was presented, not to mention evidence ...
... cases refused to suspend the proceedings.
Water
Colombia, Honduras, Paraguay and Argentina have adopted measures that provide direct support to water service users, such as making it unlawful to cut ...
... and progressive movements in Central America to generate dialogues and unify criteria of resistance against the emerging “normality”.
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... to the detriment of Santos Corea. In relation to hearings that took place in March 2019 of a separate group of water defenders, the Appeals Court revoked the definitive dismissal of the case that had been ...
... month.
MIRIAM MIRANDA: [translated] What we feel as an organization is that something similar to the Berta Cáceres case is going to repeat itself, where the government is going to parade a group of people ...
... with their families. Those who come from outside live in a separate house but they still live in the communities. A significant proportion of the workers are asymptomatic. The problem is that the virus ...
... rendering security measures in his favor ordered by the IAHRC inadequate to guarantee his life. Hehas been subject to surveillance and harassment by the paramilitary group La Confianza; on multiple occasions ...
... policymakers now have to worry that their policy responses could make them the target of lawsuits.
A separate legal system
In fact, law firms already seem to be salivating over the potential to profit ...
... in the ground to be stored as groundwater and then emerge in springs, rivers or the sea.“
What this paragraph describes is the natural process of interactions between nature and living beings, a relationship ...
... justice and reparations for all the martyrs. We know the death of Marcelo and later Ramiro and Dora was important to inspire our struggle, but we would have liked to achieve our victories against the mining ...