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1. New Threats and Intimidation towards a Mining Opponents in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); New Threats and Intimidation towards Mining Opponents in Cabañas Another case of intimidation towards anti-mining activists in Cabañas was reported by the Environmental Committee of Cabañas. Below is ...; Created on 12 March 2012
2. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... favor of their opponents. In the course of their struggle, the water defenders face trials of biblical proportions, including the brutal and unsolved murder of their leader Marcelo Rivera, a teacher ...; Created on 23 April 2021
3. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... CGN-PRONICO company launched a campaign to repress, harass, and terrorize opponents of mining contamination. The logic of this action is to take advantage of social distance measures to dismantle resistance ...; Created on 12 June 2020
4. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... nature over corporate rights, as we laid out in the report “Beyond NAFTA 2.0.” The Sierra Club, one of the most vocal opponents of the USMCA, had demanded complete elimination of the ISDS system, which ...; Created on 03 May 2020
5. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... metals mining. As part of this effort, the Catholic Church heightened its visible opposition to mining. Civil society opponents to mining even brought a governor from the Philippines to El Salvador to ...; Created on 26 June 2017
6. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Elizabeth Malkin : EcoAmericas The government of El Salvador and mining opponents won an important victory this month when an arbitration panel threw out an Australian-Canadian mining company’s demand ...; Created on 10 November 2016
7. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... advertises in social networks, organizes parties and – according to national opponents to mining - donating gifts like “here a bag of rice, there the pay for the doctor’s visit”. Company representative ...; Created on 03 January 2016
8. International community responds massively in support of El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... but opponents of metal mining in El Salvador, and their international allies, maintain that there is much more at stake: the violation of human rights; the long term environmental and economic sustainability ...; Created on 29 September 2014
9. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the environment. New Zealand Radio New Zealand National: OceanaGold case worries TPP opponents The mining company which owns the Reefton, Macraes and Frasers gold mines in the South Island, is suing ...; Created on 29 September 2014
10. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... rights. Opponents say the denial was legitimate: that the company failed to complete the necessary environmental and feasibility studies required by law. The case is being decided far from the mines: ...; Created on 06 August 2014
11. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... its suit, attempted to paint its opponents as “rogue” NGOs that are “anti-development.” Yet, the reality is that El Salvador’s decision to stop issuing new mining permits came after strong public outrage ...; Created on 25 March 2014
12. PRESS RELEASE: Mesa introduces new Special Law to Ban Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... documented and targeted murders, in 2009, of opponents of the mining industry have occurred, the real debate about the implications of mining has been silenced in El Salvador. The commitments made by ...; Created on 01 October 2013
13. “What is Happening to Canada’s Good Name?”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... violence and murder against opponents of the mining project. This is beyond question a tragedy-- one which has been compounded by Pac Rim’s suit before a World Bank tribunal, where it is demanding tens ...; Created on 19 November 2012
14. Pacific Rim President's Claim that He Wants to Help El Salvador Leaves Many Unconvinced ...: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... veteran who heads Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining Corp., is nothing if not an optimist. He’s had no end of troubles: His staff in El Salvador have faced intimidation at gunpoint by local opponents ...; Created on 03 July 2012
15. Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement Responds: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... 6.2 million people, (which also winds through Guatemala and Honduras). …The communities’ goal: to make El Salvador the first nation to ban gold mining.” Mine opponents murdered Over the past two ...; Created on 30 April 2012

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