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41. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the 80s, brought Governor Carlos Padilla from Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines to testify before a legislative committee on the impacts of OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine there. Two Filipino community members ...; Created on 26 June 2017
42. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... from potential future mining.8 While this was just one of dozens of lawsuits brought by global corporations against governments in this period, it attracted the attention of civil society groups in the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
43. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world to do so. The historic vote came just six months after a World Bank tribunal ruled in favour of the country’s government in an international investment arbitration case brought by a Canadian ...; Created on 23 June 2017
44. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Commission deliberated over the bill. It was later reported by FMLN Representative Guillermo Mata, President of the Environment and Climate Change Commission, that the busloads of people brought by the ...; Created on 16 April 2017
45. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and employment brought by mining companies is necessary for the country and that the risks to the environment and population can be managed through technology. These pro-mining arguments are signs that ...; Created on 13 February 2017
46. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the negative consequences are avoided in the future. Escobar added that he hopes lawmakers support the proposal and propel the bill into law. But it’s not the first time such a bill has been brought ...; Created on 10 February 2017
47. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, brought together various non-governmental organizations, community members and relatives of the victims. Mr. Guevara commented that as relatives of victims, Ramiro Rivera and ...; Created on 03 January 2017
48. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); by Karen Hudlet : Equal Times In October this year, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) decided in favour of El Salvador in a case brought by the US mining ...; Created on 28 December 2016
49. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to Washington to receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, a prize that brought international recognition to this struggle. Then when we made our first trip to Cabañas ...; Created on 10 November 2016
50. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... health and safety. A number of such cases brought against Latin American countries at the tribunal involve disputes over mines or oil and gas deposits. “It is an arbitration mechanism that was set up ...; Created on 10 November 2016

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