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Defending Life, Defending Land: Communities Call Out Mining’s Human Rights Abuses in the Lead-Up to COP30
Belém, Brazil – As global leaders prepare to gather for COP30, communities from across the world are calling out the human rights crisis driven by mining. Yes to Life, No to Mining (YLNM) members from the Philippines, Ecuador, and Brazil are standing together to expose the violence, criminalisation, and impunity faced by those who defend their lands, waters, and ways of life.
The Green Lie: Communities Expose the Myth of “Green” Mining at COP30
Belém, Brazil – As governments and corporations rush to brand mining as part of the “green transition”, communities from across the globe are calling it what it is: extractivism, the same colonial system of exploitation repackaged in the language of climate action.
Communities Stand for the Rights of Nature: From Ecuador to Ireland to Brazil, Grassroots Voices Unite in Belém
Belém, Brazil – As global movements converge in the Amazon for the 6th Rights of Nature Tribunal, Yes to Life, No to Mining (YLNM), a global solidarity network, is bringing together frontline defenders from across continents to assert a shared truth: the Earth is not property to be owned, but life to be respected.
Construindo um Futuro Pós-Extrativista / Construyendo un Futuro Postextractivo /Building a Post Extractive Future /
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YLNM en la Amazonia Brasileña / YLNM in the Brazilian Amazon [Podcast]
Escucha nuestro podcast con la representación de comunidades y organizaciones ecológicas de distintas regiones que forman parte de Yes To the life No to mining
Listen to our podcast featuring representatives from communities and ecological organisations across different regions that are part of Yes to Life No to Mining
COP30, the climate summit will come to the Amazon
In November 2025, the world's attention will turn to Belém do Pará, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, where the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) under the United...
HAITÍ: 50 preguntas sobre la minería
La herramienta 50 preguntas sobre la minería es un esfuerzo pedagógico que busca acercar, de manera sencilla y participativa, la información contenida en manuales e informes...
MEXICO: San Miguel del Progreso, Guerrero, reafirma la libre autodeterminación
“San Miguel del Progreso, Guerrero, México reafirma la libre autodeterminación: Estatuto Comunal en lengua Mè’phàà, un blindaje contra el extractivismo” En México, los...
WATER – the fundamental prerequisite for sustaining all life – PROTECT LAKE VÄTTERN
The summer of 2025 have been very dry here in Sweden. In fact the whole year have been dry, causing the groundwater levels in the larger part of the country, to drop down to...
IRELAND: 10 years of protecting the Sperrins
SOS Journey 2015 -2025 (speech by Fidelma O’Kane, 21st July 2025, at SOS 10th anniversary celebration) First meeting of Save Our Sperrins *The first meeting of Save Our Sperrins...
The Resistance of the Owukpa People to Coal Mining in Nigeria
The people of Owukpa say no to coal extraction, they want their land, their health, and their livelihoods preserved.
Rights of Nature and Resistance to Mining in Ecuador
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court created a national legal precedent by upholding the rights of nature for Los Cedros, on of the world’s most biodiverse regions.