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1. Inside a secret hearing at a foreign tribunal, El Salvador awaits a verdict: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); $301 million and the health of El Salvador’s rivers and people are riding on World Bank arbitration next week. Alex Blair, OXFAM America Next week in Washington DC, right along Pennsylvania Avenue, ...; Created on 17 September 2014
2. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... civil war from the 1980s came together to ban metal mining in El Salvador. The inside story is the subject of a new book. "The Water Defenders" coauthor Robin Broad joins us now, along with Luis Parada, ...; Created on 22 March 2021
3. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... and its use managed by members of the ejido) inside the mine’s area of operations. In order to operate the mine, Equinox Gold rents land from Carrizalillo, on which the bulk of the mine installations are ...; Created on 28 November 2020
4. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... consultation inside a protected national park in a process mired by irregularities, according to international experts. In response to criminal complaints filed by the company Inversiones Los Pinares, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
5. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... men voluntarily presented themselves to the courts to clarify their legal status. Soon after the Guapinol camp was set up in August 2018, effectively stopping further construction of the road inside ...; Created on 25 September 2020
6. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... know of the people who abducted these five Indigenous leaders? CARLA GARCIA: So, what is the situation? They arrived on June 18 dressed in official police clothes. And they went inside of every house, ...; Created on 17 August 2020
7. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... whose body was found inside an abandoned water well with signs of torture reminiscing of the brutality of the Salvadorian civil war, sent shock waves through the national and international anti mining ...; Created on 15 July 2020
8. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... this employer abuse, a worker died last month inside the mine facilities. To worsen even further the already difficult situation, amid the confinement measures imposed by the Giammattei government, the ...; Created on 12 June 2020
9. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Violence escalated in June 2009 when community leader and vocal anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera went missing in the town of San Isidro. His body was found two weeks later, rotting inside a water well, ...; Created on 08 February 2018
10. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Community organizations bring to the table their inside knowledge of community dynamics and village politics, and their connections with the youth activist base. Most importantly, they know how to get ...; Created on 26 June 2017
11. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... outside the country than inside”. For him, the persistence of international allies in raising the profile of the issue “not only helped to explain the risks of the ISDS system but also meant that local ...; Created on 23 June 2017
12. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... desks. Banners and signs with similar messages were carried by activists gathered inside and outside the legislative assembly in anticipation of the legislated ban. Communities and NGOs in El Salvador ...; Created on 16 April 2017
13. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... opposition from a wide range of groups inside and outside El Salvador, the ICSID tribunal ruled against the company. When legislators announced that they would begin serious discussion on the mining ban, ...; Created on 16 April 2017
14. Media Coverage: Victory of El Salvador Vs Pacific Rim: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Pacific Rim mining company Reuters (UK):OceanaGold loses compensation claim against El Salvador, also in Business Insider (USA) Telesur (Venezuela):El Salvador Beats Mining Giant OceanaGold at World ...; Created on 09 November 2016
15. MUA calls on Australians to support campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the World Bank. OceanaGold decided not to hold their AGM in Melbourne and took it to Toronto where protests were held outside and inside the AGM. In El Salvador communities have been holding plebiscites ...; Created on 28 September 2016
16. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... activist Marcelo Rivera went missing. His body was found two weeks later in the town of San Isidro, hidden inside a water well, with signs of torture. The community of La Maraña also experienced its ...; Created on 07 January 2016
17. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
18. The water issue is thorny for the right wing in El Salvador: Interview with Lourdes Palacios: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and it has failed to ratify the reform in this second. Of course they are looking at water as a merchandise to privatize it and to generate profit. We believe that deep down inside ARENA never had an ...; Created on 23 January 2015
19. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which is housed in the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Inside, three individuals sat down to decide whether or not the government of El ...; Created on 29 September 2014
20. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Bank on Monday. Why did they decide to forego their Monday obligations and gather in downtown DC? Because behind closed doors, inside the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 25 September 2014

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