Extractive industry is another reason migrants leave home
Hondurans kept their national flag at the front of the migrant caravan in Vado Hondo, Guatemala. | Photos by Sandra Cuffe
Francisco could have left his home in northeastern Honduras for any number of reasons. The coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown measures had put an end to his work as a bricklayer s assistant, which had earned him $8 a day. Two hurricanes then swept through the region late last year, destroying homes, crops, and infrastructure.
But the main reason Francisco fled Honduras was because of a mining project. An iron oxide mine under construction inside a national park just south of the city of Tocoa has sparked years of opposition, conflict, and violence in the area. Community residents have been protesting the mine to protect their river. Some are in jail. Others face threats. People have been killed.
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Farmers launch climate change court challenge against Narrabri coal seam gas project
By national science, technology and environment reporter Michael Slezak
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The Narrabri coal seam gas project received thousands of submissions in opposition to it, during the approval process.
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A controversial coal seam gas project in regional New South Wales is facing a new legal challenge, after farmers filed papers alleging the State Government s approval did not properly consider the impacts the project would have on climate change.
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A legal challenge will argue the commission failed to properly assess the project s emissions
Global Witness investigation exposes how two US
agribusiness giants – ADM and Bunge – source from Indonesian palm oil mills
linked publicly to human rights abuses and land grabs.
December 10, 2020: Nearly 40% of a sample of Indonesian palm oil mills
supplying two of the world’s largest commodity traders – ADM and Bunge – are publicly
linked to land, environmental and human rights abuses.
In a new report
Trading Risks: How ADM & Bunge are
failing Land & Environmental Defenders in Indonesia, Global Witness
uncovers how ADM and Bunge are failing to ensure the hundreds of Indonesian
palm oil mills they source from are free from human rights abuses and land