Civil society and mining-affected communities are urging their legislators to protect water over mining interests.

Since Argentinian President Javier Milei’s government introduced a bill to weaken the country’s Glacier Law in December, Argentina’s news and social media landscape has been dominated by...

The undersigned national and international human rights and environmental organisations express their deep concern over the sentence by the Criminal Court in Quevedo, Los Ríos province, sentencing defenders Piedad Guaranda, María Ortega and Wilfrido Escobar to four (4) years in prison and the...

Local officials and the Canadian company say no spill occurred. However, affected communities worry about health impacts as no conclusive cause for the dead fish downstream of the Veladero mine has yet been identified.

This week, the Canadian ambassador to Ecuador, Craig Kowalik, invited the Federation of Indigenous and Peasant Organizations of Azuay (FOA) and other community representatives from the páramo de Kimsakocha for a meeting to gain firsthand knowledge of their local reality, their priorities, and their...

Above Ground and MiningWatch Canada are co-organizing an event series unpacking various issues surrounding so-called “critical minerals”. The growing global focus on prioritizing the exploration and extraction of minerals deemed of critical importance to economic security, defence and an energy...

On International Human Rights Defenders Day, Colombian environmental defenders and international allies are questioning Canadian authorities’ ongoing silence as these defenders continue to face serious threats to their safety related to their activism against an Aris Mining Corporation project in...

The following letter was sent to President of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, Minister of the Environment Juan Carlos Navarro, Minister of Commerce and Industries Julio Moltó, and First Quantum CEO, Tristan Pascall, by five international organizations, including MiningWatch Canada.

MiningWatch Canada expresses our solidarity and support for the parliamentary petition to the government of South Africa presented by Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) on mining accountability, capital flight, and community abandonment, and for the relief requested therein.

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The Carney government has doubled down on its extractivist agenda with the announcement of a second round of designated “projects of national importance.” The list includes several mining projects: the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick, the Nouveau Monde graphite project in Québec...

The Québec meilleure mine coalition is pleased to present the program for its second conference, with the theme "Critical and Strategic Minerals Policy: What Voices/Pathways for the Environment and Communities." Workshops and panels will be on the agenda to sharpen our knowledge and discuss the...

On September 16, thousands of people in the canton of Cuenca in Southern Ecuador’s Azuay Province took to the streets in one of the biggest marches in the recent history of Ecuador, to demand an end to industrial mining in the high altitude paramo de Kimsakocha, a crucial water source for the...

As the Government of Canada considers its priorities and budget we are writing to remind you of the commitment made to Canadians by then trade minister François-Philippe Champagne when he announced the creation of the CORE in 2018. The CORE is a critical component of the Government of Canada’s...

A Delegation of Xinka Women will visit Eastern Canada in September 2025  #PuebloXinkaDijoNo 

After nearly seven years in a court-ordered consultation process, the Xinka Indigenous People of Guatemala have denied consent for the restart of Canadian Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine in southern...

People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. Local communities and civil society organizations have filed two constitutional protection actions (amparos) calling for an immediate halt to Barrick Mining...

Environmental defenders in Southern Ecuador filed an injunction (medida cautelar) against Canadian-owned Loma Larga project and announced several actions protesting the arbitrary decision of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (“MAATE”) to grant an environmental licence for...