For over ten years, Jen Moore has been researching, writing and collaborating closely with the struggles of mining-affected communities and allied organizations in Latin America, Canada and other parts of the world. From 2010 to 2018, she coordinated the Latin America Program at MiningWatch Canada, which supports processes of territorial defense and efforts to obtain justice for harms associated with the activities of Canadian mining companies and Canadian foreign affairs in the region. Before this, she worked as an independent journalist and media activist with a focus on community media, collective rights and Canadian foreign affairs in Latin America. From 2006 to 2010, she lived in Ecuador and frequently reported on the struggles of mining-affected communities, including contributing research for an Al Jazeera documentary about the tensions over mining and water in central-southern Ecuador and participating in a regional research project ‘Territories, Conflicts and Development in the Andes’ based at the University of Manchester. In addition to joining IPS as an Associate Fellow, she is working on a Master’s degree in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Saint Francis Xavier in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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IPS Expresses Deep Sadness and Sincere Condolences with Family, Friends, and Movements in Latin America at the Sudden Loss of Four Dearly Loved Defenders in Guatemala

Today we are reminded about how important it is to appreciate and care for eachother every day as part of long and challenging struggles for the health, dignity and self-determination of communities and peoples.

Report – Mining, Corporate Social Responsiblity, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador

This report will be presented at OceanaGold’s office in Melbourne on Thursday, the 36th anniversary of the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero.

Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador

This study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation at the local level is deceitful, disrespectful and dangerous