Skip to main content

NEWS

Governor Aduviri must remain in jail

| Regional News
Kleber Sanchez - La Republica The Criminal Court of Appeals of Puno confirmed a sentence of 6 years in prison against the regional governor Walter Aduviri and the payment of civil reparations for S/2 millions of soles in favor of the State.  The Criminal Court of Appeals of Puno co...

Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington

| Regional News
Pedro Cabezas While the role of the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, in a narcotrafficking ring led by his brother, Tony Hernadez, slowly unfolded in a court of Manhattan, New York, a little known group of environmental activists from&n...

Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining

| OceanaGold Philippines
Natashya Gutierrez and Anya Zoledziowski - VICE Not only do Canadian mines in the Philippines degrade the environment and displace Indigenous communities, activists say, eco-defenders are targeted by the Philippine government for protesting them. A VICE World News investigation. It was 6:45...

National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it

| Water Crisis El Salvador
PRESS RELEASE : National Alliance against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador  “On the Occasion of the Global Climate Strike” “Without Water, There Is No Future” On the occasion of the Global Climate Strike, we as the National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water express the f...

ATM Statement re OGPI FTAA renewal

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
PRESS RELEASE : ATM We are greatly disappointed with this development.  ATM believes that OceanaGold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) had failed to substantially comply with the requirements of a renewal for FTAA.  It did not inform the local governments about its application and has not secu...

US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project

| FTAs & ISDS
by Daniela Pastrana: Pie de Pagina Foto: Celia Guerrero /Archivo Pie de PaginaThis is not fiction: an American company dedicated to finding treasures at the bottom of the sea has partnered with Altos Hornos de México to exploit an underwater mine in Baja California Sur and extract phosphorus. Th...

News