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A Binding Treaty about corporations can be an instrument to guarantee the respect of our rights and territories

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Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería “Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. Before these violations happened, and up to this date, we were not in possession of a judici...

OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition

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P. Cabezas Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office reported that the mining company Oceana Gold had paid the $ 8 million dollars awarded by the Int...

PRESS RELEASE: OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines

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PRESS RELEASE June 23, 2017 (Ottawa/Washington, D.C./Melbourne) Reviewing OceanaGold reports issued in the lead up to its June 23 annual general shareholders meeting in Toronto, it is difficult to tell that the company was at the centre of international controversy over two of its mine projects ...

Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador

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Telesur Despite a deadline from the lawsuit passing, the company owes El Salvador US$8 million.  Over 280 organizations from around the world sent an open letter to Canadian-Australian mining giant OceanaGold on Tuesday, demanding that the company adhere to an earlier ruling by a World ...

In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’

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MiningWatch After seven years, four murders and US$24 million in total legal costs, in October 2016, a little-known World Bank tribunal trashed OceanaGold’s claim that El Salvador either owed it a mining permit for a proposed gold mine or US$250 million dollars. The Washington D.C.-base...

A wake-up call for Trump's trade agenda

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By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : The Hill This week, labor, environmental, religious and other groups, representing over 180 million people from around the world, sent a letter to a corporate mining CEO — a letter that is also a wake-up call for President Trump's trade agenda. Th...

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