Month: January 2005

Honduras: Open Pit Mines Threaten San Andrés Communities

by Jessica Sherman, Greengrants Volunteer The villagers of the San Andrés area of western Honduras now know what a river of dead fish looks like. An estimated 18,000 fish were casualties of a cyanide spill by a gold mining company, Minerales de Occidente (MINOSA), in an incident at the San Andrés open-pit gold mine on […]

Peru: Arana Awarded Human Rights Award

Greengrants applauds Father Marco Arana, winner of Peru’s National Human Rights Award for 2004, awarded by the National Coordinator of Human Rights (NCHR), a coalition of non-governmental human rights organizations.

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