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​Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines

| OceanaGold Philippines
Mining Watch A petition calling on the Canadian Government to act in response to increasing extrajudicial killings of civilians and human rights defenders in the Philippines will be tabled by the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, Heather McPherson, in the House of Commons on February...

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

| Mining and Human Rights
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

| Mining and Human Rights
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...

OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue

| OceanaGold
The Market Herald Oliver Gray OceanaGold (OGC) has been fined US$100,000 (roughly A$128,500) for breaching environmental rules at its Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina This marks the third time in the last year that the company has run into trouble with the Department of Health and Environmenta...

Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town

| OceanaGold
The State Sammy South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of Camden has run into trouble with the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The fine is the largest involvin...

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