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Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear

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CNCA Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala. The lawsuit, filed by Shin Imai, York Univ...

US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case

| Mining and Human Rights
GuapinolResiste Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here. Introduction comes as Honduran President Is Investigated by U.S. Federal Prosecutors for Drug Trafficking, Corruption Washington, D.C. – ...

The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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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, one of the 8 defenders of water and life.” Jeremías is one of the defenders who has been impri...

A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward

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NACLA Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 year...

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