This is an appeal from Rights Action, concerning Hudbay Minerals' alleged role in serious Human Rights Violations of an Indigenous Mayan-Qeqchi community in Guatemala. According to community testimony collected by Rights Action and students from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in May 2010, the Canadian company is directly involved in violent, illegal forced [...]
The Guatemala government has said that it will suspend Goldcorp's Marlin mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán to make way for a full investigation of the health, environmental, and human rights impacts of the controversial mine project. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered the suspension on May 21, following the release of a new [...]
Interviews and excerpts from the first international conference of its kind in Latin America, "Women, Mining and Human Rights: Beyond the Challenge," held in Guatemala City from March 14 to 17, 2010. Organized by the London-based Charity LAMMP and the Union of Latin American Women (ULAM), a regional network of women affected by mining, this [...]
One of Canada's most notorious mining companies, Goldcorp, will be tried this week in Madrid, Spain, by the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT). A group of NGO's have accused Goldcorp of violating the rights of the Mayan People in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala, where the company is operating the Marlin gold mine. Frente de Defensa Miguelense, [...]
Several Mayan communities and organizations have presented a Constitutional Petition to the government of Guatemala, calling for the immediate suspension of all mining activities taking place on Mayan land--including Goldcorp's Marlin Mine and HudBay Mineral’s Fenix project. The Petition was presented to the Secretary General of Guatemala on March 2, 2010, following a formal request [...]
"The Marlin mine has divided our town, harassed protesters, and made us afraid for the health of our families." "Is this economic development? Could Goldcorp do this in Canada?" In this video, Aniseto López and Sister Maudilia López Cardona from the "Front in Defence of San Miguel Ixtahuacán" (FREDEMI) talk briefly about Goldcorp's Marlin mine, [...]
Crisanta Perez, a Maya Mam villager from the community of Agel, in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala, was arrested by police for an outstanding arrest warrant that was laid against her in 2008, reports the maritimes-guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS). Crisanta had been in hiding for the past several months, due to several threats on [...]