... struggle, the communities in resistance to the mine were violently evicted by the police.
By February 2016, the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya won a Guatemalan Supreme Court ruling that provisionally ...
GuapinolResiste
After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...
... ruling and leaving the country, but it would seem that somebody continues to give the company hope. Otherwise they would have packed up their equipment and left, "Luis Parada says.
Parada's attention i ...
Jose Mejia | Transparecia Activa
Luis Parada, the attorney representing the Salvadoran State in the international litigation initiated by Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold, explained that before an adverse ruling, ...
Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders
Wednesday April 11, six members of the 18th Street gang were sentenced to between 30 and 145 years in jail ...
Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists
Environmental Committee of Cabañas rejects the ruling in the case of murders of environmentalists
Zoraya Urbina, Diario Co Latino
Tuesday ...
... motives behind the arrests. Furthermore, the five organizers are being prosecuted by a specialized war-crimes team set up by Bukele, raising worries that the ruling may be dictated from above for political ...
... are also several constitutional resolutions which recognize these as truly democratic processes. According to these rulings, such as the one issued in the department of Jalapa, municipal consultations ...
... complied with the ruling.
For its work in defense of the Garífuna people, OFRANEH received the Letelier-Moffitt Award for Human Rights from the Institute for Political Studies (IPS), an organization ...
... On December 21 of this year, the ruling party of the Legislative Assembly approved the General Law on Water Resources. Following the approval, environmental organizations such as the Water Forum, the National ...
... of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site.
More information, in Spanish, including videos of the PNC entering La Puya, can be found here, La Puya – facebook.
You can read more ...
... can do whatever they want.”
He said that the ruling class – which controls government institutions, police, and the military – provide mining companies protection. “They work in concert to realize corporate ...
... the Salvadoran government nearly $13 million in legal fees and expenses—to rule against the mine. The ICSID based its ruling on the very legal issue that Barrera had pointed out during a National Action ...
... a Supreme Court ruling that suspended his sentence. However, the judicial harassment he and other leaders of the Aymarazo protest movement have faced is a reminder of Canada’s leading role in the global ...
... Investments, the company behind the mine, went so far as to accuse them of murder in an attempt to discourage support of the water protectors.
Since the August court ruling, smear campaigns have intensified, ...
... 27, is the president of the Triunfo de la Cruz community board and also a member of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRENEH). He campaigned for Honduras to fulfill a 2015 ruling by the Inter-American ...
... detention review hearings, the men continue to be detained.
Two weeks ago the Appeals Court finally released its ruling on the men’s appeal, five months late, and the results are devastating. Not only ...
"Business Human Right
Legal Defense of Guapinol Water Protectors Respond to Disgraceful "Copy-Paste" Appeals Court Ruling with Constitutional Action", 24 de agosto de 2020
The eight defenders have been ...
The Court of Appeals ruling confirms Honduras as the most dangerous country for environmental defenders in the world. On August 15, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Public and Common Goods ...
... and its issuance. In addition, referring to the Appeals Court’s decision about the application of pre-trial detention, the magistrates referred to an entirely different case in their ruling. "This is the ...