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21. Duterte's new warning to mining companie: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to the awards or even to its reforestation requirements. We expected to see plantations filled with healthy trees, certainly as tall as President Duterte. Instead, we found hillsides where we were hard-pressed ...; Created on 08 May 2018
22. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on her family, including her three-year-old daughter’s life. But the radio station continued its campaign. “It was such a hard time,” she says, “but instead of people shutting up in fear, they raised ...; Created on 07 May 2018
23. Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and witnesses. Commented MiningWatch Canada spokesperson Catherine Coumans, “We have pushed hard for an Ombudsperson that will have robust powers to independently investigate complaints brought by people ...; Created on 08 February 2018
24. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a ban on metal mining. The law awaits President Salvador Sánchez Cerén’s signature, which is anticipated any day. However, the fight may not be over. It’s hard to say with certainty if OceanaGold will ...; Created on 26 June 2017
25. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... yes to life!” Local efforts were key to winning this hard-fought national consensus. In the years leading up to the vote, while facing a largely unresponsive government, Salvadoran citizens, with the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
26. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... impacts of mining, and a national march for the prohibition of mining on February 28th. Following the actions of community, environmental organizations, and church leaders, legislators will be hard-pressed ...; Created on 13 February 2017
27. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... And then in 2011, Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a volunteer with the Cabañas Environmental Committee, was also murdered. And yet in the face of severe risk and economic hardship, people on the ground stood ...; Created on 10 November 2016
28. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... then we repopulated Santa Marta and we lived in peace until the Pacific Rim arrived. What's more shocking is that environmentalists were murdered, even a pregnant woman. It was very hard for us, we're still ...; Created on 10 November 2016
29. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of doing so. And in Europe opposition against the ISDS-system is growing fast amongst citizens as well as politicians", says Burghard Ilge from Both ENDS Unique book The free-to-download book contains ...; Created on 11 May 2016
30. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the beginning of the 1980s it has worked hard for the rights of the rural population. “In the end we have put a lot of work in the sensitization of the population and the preparation of the referendum”, ...; Created on 03 February 2016
31. A dirty gold fever: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to bring suit by foreign investors”, say Pia Eberhardt from the Corporate Europe Observatory, an organization critical of the TTIP. Such rights would give the foreign company the possibility to “ask for ...; Created on 02 February 2016
32. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); P. Cabezas As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful ...; Created on 07 January 2016
33. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... files a lawsuit before an arbitration tribunal. From El Salvador, Oliver Ristau. A vote could hardly be any clearer. 99% of the voters in Arcatao, a Municipality in northern El Salvador, said No. There ...; Created on 02 January 2016
34. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... trade rules and foreign tribunals to garner a profit from a failed mining project, community members who have suffered hardship and irreparable loss due to the presence of the company in their territory ...; Created on 30 December 2014
35. Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...; Created on 26 June 2014
36. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... restrictions to the operations of transnational mining companies. An increased reluctance to do so will ensure that activists raising awareness of environmental concerns will find political allies harder ...; Created on 13 February 2014
37. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... commercial treaties because of pressure by investors, and these are binding, hard-law treaties,” explained Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at IPS. “So who has more real power? Transnationals assure ...; Created on 15 July 2013
38. Chalk Up Another Victory for "Free Trade": Mining Companies Sue El Salvado: (2013 Fact Finding Mission); ... liberties. Throughout modern history, these “rights” have been promoted by what are called “free trade agreements,” though hardly worthy of the name, as a quick review of the relevant—thus suppressed ...; Created on 08 July 2013
39. Last Day in Victoria: (March 2013 North American Tour); ... had successfully blocked the highway for an hour last month. We told Vidalina about the demands indigenous people in Canada are making of their government for water, housing, health care. It was hard ...; Created on 17 March 2013
40. El Salvador—Guns, Gold and Choice: (Background and reports ); El Salvador—Guns, Gold and Choice In 2010 Prof. Richard Steiner, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Commission on Environmental Economic and Social Policy, visited El ...; Created on 15 March 2012

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