A resource created by Earthworks. Metal mining provides us with materials essential for modern life. But mining also devastates communities, water and the environment.

NMAP created this animated explainer about the impacts of mining and what a community’s rights and avenues of resistance are in relationship to mining projects. This video was produced to test storytelling approaches and genres with focus group communities in Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Guinea for our Beneath the Surface series.

NMAP created the Beneath the Surface series to inform rural communities facing mining about their rights, and empower them with legally sound strategies for protecting themselves.

11 ENG/RE Impact of extractive industries on human rights and climate change in the Caribbean

It is well known that mining, particularly mining for gold, silver, and other metals, not only uses significant amounts of water, but contaminates water as well. Contaminated waste water must be carefully isolated and treated to protect drinking water from infiltration.

This publication contains the full text of Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, adopted in Escazú, Costa Rica, on 4 March 2018.

Before the country’s economic collapse in 2014, Venezuela produced 2.5 million barrels of oil per day. In 2005 then-President Hugo Chavez set up PetroCaribe, a program designed to provide states with development loans.

There is a dearth of information in the public domain about what gold mining entails, what challenges it poses, what opportunities it presents, and what it may mean for communities and the country as a whole. The purpose of this Report is to help fill that gap.

Many of the agreements that Newmont obtained to conduct mining exploration on Haitian’s land were obtained without the informed consent of landowners and/or land occupants. Some reported a lack of time to read the agreements themselves or reported an inability to read the agreement at all and signed agreements with thumbprints due to their illiteracy.

Mining, land rights, and the problem of access to information in Haiti. Short video shown before the IACHR (Inter-American Court on Human Rights) in a hearing between NYU's Global Justice Clinic, Mega-Projects and the Justice in Mining Collective.

The participating organizations presented troubling information on existing obstacles to the exercise of the right of access to public information, particularly related to foreign investment projects, tourism developments, mining, and exploitation of natural resources.

The Kolektif Jistis Min, the Observatoire Mega-Projet, the Global Justice Clinic of New York University School of Law, and a journalist (“the requesting parties”) have requested a general interest hearing to direct the attention of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”, “InterAmerican Commission”) to the situation of the right of access to information in Haiti.

Le Kolektif Jistis Min, l'Observatoire Mega-Projet, la Global Justice Clinic de la New York University et un journaliste haïtien [« les soussignés »] ont sollicité une audience à caractère général afin d'attirer l'attention de la Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme [« CIDH », « Commission interaméricaine »] sur la situation du droit d'accès à l'information en Haïti.

(WASHINGTON, D.C. March 17, 2015)—Today, two Haitian civil society groups, the Justice in Mining Collective and the Megaprojects Observatory, testified to the social, environmental, and political costs of the lack of transparency surrounding the development of the tourism and mining industries in Haiti.

We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply concerned that the World Bank is helping to develop Haiti’s mining sector, an inherently high-risk industry, without applying any social or environmental standards to ensure transparency and meaningful public participation.

Last week, the World Bank Inspection Panel refused to consider a complaint from Haitian communities about the Bank’s support for development of the mining sector in Haiti.

In accordance with paragraph 17 of the Resolution establishing the Inspection Panel, I hereby inform you that on January 7, 2015, the Inspection Panel (the "Panel") received a Request for Inspection of the Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance (P144931) supported by the World Bank through a Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Facility (EI-TAF) trust fund. The Request for Inspection is included as Attachment 1 to this Memorandum.

This Request represents the joint concerns of Complainants, who have experienced harm and fear future harm as a result of the World Bank’s involvement in the mining sector in Haiti.

From NPR. There are two major faults along Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This earthquake occurred on the southern fault, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system.