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The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chavez

| Water Crisis El Salvador
FIDES Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in the proposal supported and elaborated by the Catholic Church and environmental organizations. "...

Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities

| Mining and Human Rights
SPRING Samantha Ponting “I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation to attendees of the April 19 virtual launch of the International Coalition for Human Right...

Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election

| Mining and Human Rights
Minería Panamericana Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher who promises to redistribute wealth, took a slight advantage over Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular...

In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People

| Mining and Human Rights
 Inequality Jen Moore and Ellen Moore Vice President Kamala Harris in a virtual bilateral meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on April 26, 2021. As the Vice President seeks to remedy root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devasta...

Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project

| Mining and Human Rights
Guatemala Network Solidarity Kevo Dell In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro Blanco mining project in Jutiapa, and its re-opening by Bluestone Resources. The OIE was cre...

Mining is not ‘recovery’

| OceanaGold Philippines
Inquirer Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting the ban on new mining agreements. On the heels of his order — EO 130 — came two announcements ...

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