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

The undersigned, engaged citizens and organizations form the Northwest department, encourage communities that are under threat of metal mining, especially farmers, to remain vigilant of the State and mining companies, and ensure that they do not take advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent economic crisis to push their projects forward and take our land.

It is with great indignation and with a sentiment of revolt that Kolektif Jistis Min (Mining Justice Collective or KJM1) saw, in a press statement dated February 15, 2019 published by the mining company Resources Générale Corporation (formerly VCS Mining),2 the announcement that the draft mining law would be voted during the Senate’s next session.

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.

It is with revolt and indignation that the Kolektif Jistis Min (Justice Mining Collective or KJM) hears Jean Henry Céant say before Parliament that the draft mining law is supported by broad consensus of all sectors of the country. KJM, with all its force, denounces the statement of the Prime Minister, made before the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, that “everyone agrees with” the draft mining law. The law is “horse’s medicine,” drafted by the World Bank and the Haitian government.

The Collective of Haitian Organizations that are fighting against mineral exploitation in the nation of Haiti honor World Water Day on March 22nd to denounce the great threat that mining exploitation presents to the State of Haiti.

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.

We the undersigned—farmer organizations, workers, and citizens of the North Department, especially from Morne Pele—raise our voices to denounce gold and other metal mining in the North, particularly in Morne Pele, Quartier Morin.

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.

The Justice in Mining Collective (Kolektif Jistis Min or KJM), a group of organizations working to prevent metal mining in the nation of Haiti, honors the global day of action against open pit mining with this note of courage and resistance.

The Kolektif Jistis Min (Justice in Mining Collective or KJM) and several other organizations recently received invitations from the Haitian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce to discuss the draft mining law that the World Bank and the Haitian Government are pushing to pass.

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.