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Changing public policy and mining practices to ensure the health of individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
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On organise une table ronde virtuelle qui réunira des partenaires de première ligne du Canada, et autour du monde pour parler des luttes actuelles pour la justice minière et partager nos visions pour l'avenir.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : miningwatch.ca/fr/blog/2025...
On organise une table ronde virtuelle qui réunira des partenaires de première ligne du Canada, et autour du monde pour parler des luttes actuelles pour la justice minière et partager nos visions pour l'avenir.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : miningwatch.ca/fr/blog/2025...
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Webinaire à venir !
On organise une table ronde virtuelle qui réunira des partenaires de première ligne du Canada, et autour du monde pour parler des luttes actuelles pour la justice minière et partager nos visions pour l'avenir.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : miningwatch.ca/fr/blog/2025...
On organise une table ronde virtuelle qui réunira des partenaires de première ligne du Canada, et autour du monde pour parler des luttes actuelles pour la justice minière et partager nos visions pour l'avenir.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : miningwatch.ca/fr/blog/2025...
Upcoming Webinar!
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Upcoming Webinar!
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
We're hosting a virtual roundtable webinar bringing together frontline partners from Canada and around the world to discuss current struggles for mining justice, and share visions for the future.
Register now: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Today, a group of citizens delivered a petition to mining company Pan American Silver's HQ in Vancouver, demanding the company respect the self-determination of the Xinka Indigenous people and close the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala.
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Today, a group of citizens delivered a petition to mining company Pan American Silver's HQ in Vancouver, demanding the company respect the self-determination of the Xinka Indigenous people and close the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala.
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
Read the press release: miningwatch.ca/news/2025/11...
Brief article on The Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement & the Upcoming Referendum in Ecuador on whether to rewrite the world’s only constitution that recognizes the Rights of Nature, with sharp comments from✍️
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@lughiotto.bsky.social -TNI
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November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Brief article on The Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement & the Upcoming Referendum in Ecuador on whether to rewrite the world’s only constitution that recognizes the Rights of Nature, with sharp comments from✍️
@lughiotto.bsky.social -TNI
▶️ shorturl.at/qdBM1
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@lughiotto.bsky.social -TNI
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We're hiring! Join our small but mighty team as Interim Latin American Program Coordinator!
Read more about the position and how to apply here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Read more about the position and how to apply here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We're hiring! Join our small but mighty team as Interim Latin American Program Coordinator!
Read more about the position and how to apply here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
Read more about the position and how to apply here: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...
@jachalnosetoca.bsky.social Communities in Iglesias, Argentina, the occurrence of dead fish at the Cuesta del Viento Dam near Canada's Barrick Gold's Veladero mine
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
@jachalnosetoca.bsky.social Communities in Iglesias, Argentina, the occurrence of dead fish at the Cuesta del Viento Dam near Canada's Barrick Gold's Veladero mine
Bravo à @eausecours.bsky.social d'avoir organisé cette action importante pour exiger la fin du sacrifice des lacs et rivières au profit des minières. Merci pour votre leadership important sur ce dossier!
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Bravo à @eausecours.bsky.social d'avoir organisé cette action importante pour exiger la fin du sacrifice des lacs et rivières au profit des minières. Merci pour votre leadership important sur ce dossier!
"Over the past 18 months, the Canadian govt has negotiated an FTA with Ecuador, claiming the two countries share important values of respect for democracy/HR
Yet, during the same time, the HR situation in 🇪🇨 has deteriorated to unprecedented levels of militarization"
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Yet, during the same time, the HR situation in 🇪🇨 has deteriorated to unprecedented levels of militarization"
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
October 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Over the past 18 months, the Canadian govt has negotiated an FTA with Ecuador, claiming the two countries share important values of respect for democracy/HR
Yet, during the same time, the HR situation in 🇪🇨 has deteriorated to unprecedented levels of militarization"
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Yet, during the same time, the HR situation in 🇪🇨 has deteriorated to unprecedented levels of militarization"
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
March for life and water in Penco, Chile!
Large community march against Canadian mining company Aclara Resources' Rare Earth Mining project $ARA.TO.
Penco is not for sale!
#FueraAclara
Large community march against Canadian mining company Aclara Resources' Rare Earth Mining project $ARA.TO.
Penco is not for sale!
#FueraAclara
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
March for life and water in Penco, Chile!
Large community march against Canadian mining company Aclara Resources' Rare Earth Mining project $ARA.TO.
Penco is not for sale!
#FueraAclara
Large community march against Canadian mining company Aclara Resources' Rare Earth Mining project $ARA.TO.
Penco is not for sale!
#FueraAclara
📅 Save the date! Nov 25 2025, 6-7:30pm!
To conclude our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign, and launch our legacy giving program, we’re hosting a webinar roundtable with frontline partners!
Stay tuned — full invite + registration link coming soon!
To conclude our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign, and launch our legacy giving program, we’re hosting a webinar roundtable with frontline partners!
Stay tuned — full invite + registration link coming soon!
October 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📅 Save the date! Nov 25 2025, 6-7:30pm!
To conclude our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign, and launch our legacy giving program, we’re hosting a webinar roundtable with frontline partners!
Stay tuned — full invite + registration link coming soon!
To conclude our 25th anniversary fundraising campaign, and launch our legacy giving program, we’re hosting a webinar roundtable with frontline partners!
Stay tuned — full invite + registration link coming soon!
We are deeply concerned by the smear campaign targeting
CIAM Panama, for their tireless work in bringing international visibility to the serious environmental and human rights impacts of the Cobre Panama mine, and advocating for corporate accountability.
CIAM Panama, for their tireless work in bringing international visibility to the serious environmental and human rights impacts of the Cobre Panama mine, and advocating for corporate accountability.
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We are deeply concerned by the smear campaign targeting
CIAM Panama, for their tireless work in bringing international visibility to the serious environmental and human rights impacts of the Cobre Panama mine, and advocating for corporate accountability.
CIAM Panama, for their tireless work in bringing international visibility to the serious environmental and human rights impacts of the Cobre Panama mine, and advocating for corporate accountability.
« Nous avons accueilli cette nouvelle avec un sentiment de doute, mais aussi avec la conviction que notre combat [contre DPM Metals $DPM.TO $DPMLF ] porte ses fruits », a déclaré Lauro Sigcha, président de la Fédération des organisations autochtones et paysannes de l'Azuay (FOA).
October 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
« Nous avons accueilli cette nouvelle avec un sentiment de doute, mais aussi avec la conviction que notre combat [contre DPM Metals $DPM.TO $DPMLF ] porte ses fruits », a déclaré Lauro Sigcha, président de la Fédération des organisations autochtones et paysannes de l'Azuay (FOA).
🙌 PEOPLE POWER!
This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!
This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!
This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!
This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🙌 PEOPLE POWER!
This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!
This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!
This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!
This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!
MiningWatch congratulates the Tŝilhqot’in National Government on their historic, long fought agreement - Teẑtan Biny Gagaghut'i, which was officially celebrated this weekend!
📸: Tŝilhqot’in National Government
📸: Tŝilhqot’in National Government
October 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
MiningWatch congratulates the Tŝilhqot’in National Government on their historic, long fought agreement - Teẑtan Biny Gagaghut'i, which was officially celebrated this weekend!
📸: Tŝilhqot’in National Government
📸: Tŝilhqot’in National Government
In a press conference this week, water defenders, Indigenous organizations, trade unions, and student unions denounced the criminalization of social protest in Azuay since the Massive March for Protection of Water in Cuenca on September 16.
📸: FOA Azuay
📸: FOA Azuay
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In a press conference this week, water defenders, Indigenous organizations, trade unions, and student unions denounced the criminalization of social protest in Azuay since the Massive March for Protection of Water in Cuenca on September 16.
📸: FOA Azuay
📸: FOA Azuay
Communities peacefully resisting #SilverCorpMetals #ElDomo-Curipamba Inc $SVM.TO project demand answers at AGM
September 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Communities peacefully resisting #SilverCorpMetals #ElDomo-Curipamba Inc $SVM.TO project demand answers at AGM
While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s AG $SVM.TO, Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest.
Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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September 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s AG $SVM.TO, Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest.
Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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Representatives from the governments of *Canada, France, and Germany appeared at the court yesterday to observe the ruling, a reminder that governments and international civil society are watching this case closely.
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Representatives from the governments of *Canada, France, and Germany appeared at the court yesterday to observe the ruling, a reminder that governments and international civil society are watching this case closely.
Last week, thousands hit the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador to protect water and the páramo de Kimsakocha from mining.
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 environmental licence or face further action.
Full blog: bit.ly/3ItYvJN
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 environmental licence or face further action.
Full blog: bit.ly/3ItYvJN
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Last week, thousands hit the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador to protect water and the páramo de Kimsakocha from mining.
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 environmental licence or face further action.
Full blog: bit.ly/3ItYvJN
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 environmental licence or face further action.
Full blog: bit.ly/3ItYvJN
Last week, thousands flooded the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador to protect water and oppose mining in the páramo de Kimsakocha.
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 DPM Metals' environmental licence or face further action.
Read the blog: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/9/...
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 DPM Metals' environmental licence or face further action.
Read the blog: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/9/...
September 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Last week, thousands flooded the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador to protect water and oppose mining in the páramo de Kimsakocha.
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 DPM Metals' environmental licence or face further action.
Read the blog: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/9/...
Protesters are demanding the Ecuadorian government revoke 🇨🇦 DPM Metals' environmental licence or face further action.
Read the blog: miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/9/...
There's still time to register!
Join us to hear directly from Xinka leaders visiting Ottawa ➡️
September 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm
FSS Building, uOttawa, Room 5028
RSVP ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/canada-mus...
🚫 #PuebloXinkaDijoNo #XinkaPeopleSayNo
Join us to hear directly from Xinka leaders visiting Ottawa ➡️
September 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm
FSS Building, uOttawa, Room 5028
RSVP ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/canada-mus...
🚫 #PuebloXinkaDijoNo #XinkaPeopleSayNo
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There's still time to register!
Join us to hear directly from Xinka leaders visiting Ottawa ➡️
September 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm
FSS Building, uOttawa, Room 5028
RSVP ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/canada-mus...
🚫 #PuebloXinkaDijoNo #XinkaPeopleSayNo
Join us to hear directly from Xinka leaders visiting Ottawa ➡️
September 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm
FSS Building, uOttawa, Room 5028
RSVP ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/canada-mus...
🚫 #PuebloXinkaDijoNo #XinkaPeopleSayNo
Today, thousands of Cuencanos are taking to the streets to march for the protection of water against metal mining, showing an overwhelming opposition to Canadian mining in the paramo de Kimsakocha, Ecuador!
📸: FOA Azuay
📸: FOA Azuay
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Today, thousands of Cuencanos are taking to the streets to march for the protection of water against metal mining, showing an overwhelming opposition to Canadian mining in the paramo de Kimsakocha, Ecuador!
📸: FOA Azuay
📸: FOA Azuay
Are you in Ottawa?
Come join us next Tuesday, Sept 23, at 5:30 PM to learn more about the efforts of Indigenous Xinka women to take their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities to Canada.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-mus...
Come join us next Tuesday, Sept 23, at 5:30 PM to learn more about the efforts of Indigenous Xinka women to take their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities to Canada.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-mus...
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Are you in Ottawa?
Come join us next Tuesday, Sept 23, at 5:30 PM to learn more about the efforts of Indigenous Xinka women to take their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities to Canada.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-mus...
Come join us next Tuesday, Sept 23, at 5:30 PM to learn more about the efforts of Indigenous Xinka women to take their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities to Canada.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-mus...
10 years since Barrick Gold's toxic spill in Argentina
10 years of demanding justice by the Asamblea de Jáchal 💧
The spill at the Veladero mine has been called the worst environmental mining disaster in the country’s history
➡️ miningwatch.ca/2022/11/14/v...
10 years of demanding justice by the Asamblea de Jáchal 💧
The spill at the Veladero mine has been called the worst environmental mining disaster in the country’s history
➡️ miningwatch.ca/2022/11/14/v...
September 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
10 years since Barrick Gold's toxic spill in Argentina
10 years of demanding justice by the Asamblea de Jáchal 💧
The spill at the Veladero mine has been called the worst environmental mining disaster in the country’s history
➡️ miningwatch.ca/2022/11/14/v...
10 years of demanding justice by the Asamblea de Jáchal 💧
The spill at the Veladero mine has been called the worst environmental mining disaster in the country’s history
➡️ miningwatch.ca/2022/11/14/v...
Two Xinka women leaders, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz begin their tour of Eastern Canada today!
They are demanding that the Canadian government and Pan American silver respect Xinka self-determination in Guatemala and permanently close the Escobal mine!
Full schedule: bit.ly/xinkatour
They are demanding that the Canadian government and Pan American silver respect Xinka self-determination in Guatemala and permanently close the Escobal mine!
Full schedule: bit.ly/xinkatour
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Two Xinka women leaders, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz begin their tour of Eastern Canada today!
They are demanding that the Canadian government and Pan American silver respect Xinka self-determination in Guatemala and permanently close the Escobal mine!
Full schedule: bit.ly/xinkatour
They are demanding that the Canadian government and Pan American silver respect Xinka self-determination in Guatemala and permanently close the Escobal mine!
Full schedule: bit.ly/xinkatour