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DHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award

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DHUMA -Human Rights and Environment- from Puno, Peru has been recognised for their tireless work in defence of indigenous rights in southern Peru with prestigious international human rights prize. DEMOCRACY CENTER Puno-based human rights organisation DHUMA -Human Rights and Environment- a close...

Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines

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Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal Catherine Coumans, John Cavanagh, Rico La Vina, Robin Broad DOWNLOAD REPORT HEREOceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold), an Australian-Canadian company, is one of dozens of transnational mining compa...

Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines

| OceanaGold Philippines
ON WORLD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, THE GLOBAL NETWORK YES TO LIFE NO TO MINING JOINS THE GLOBAL PROTEST AGAINST OCEANA GOLD WITH ITS MEMBER ORGANISATION KALIKASAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES Indigenous peoples alongside national and international organizations held simultaneous rallies in Australia, El ...

Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America

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Edgardo Ayala - IPS The installations of the silver mine located in the rural municipality of San Rafael Las Flores, in Guatemala, have been closed since 2017, as the result of a Constitutional Court ruling in response to the struggle by local inhabitants, who had not been properly consulted, as...

Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action

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P. Cabezas   Yolanda Flores, DHUMA: more than 80% of the Peruvian territory has been concessioned to mining activity. Photo: ACAFREMINSan Salvador - Representatives of indigenous communities, social movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to part...

Getting the shaft on mining abuses

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Sakura Saunders : Now Magazine After more than a decade of campaigning for oversight of Canadian mining corporations abroad, the feds appear to be backpedaling on gains won by human rights advocates After more than a decade of campaigning for oversight of Canadian mining corporations abroad, ga...

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