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El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight

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Robin Broad & John Cavanagh : inequality.org In a tale of people power over corporate power, a tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these “investor-state” lawsuits. The executives of a global mining corporation ...

Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!

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Gloria Orellana : CoLatino We thank the grace of God for having won at the ICSID where El Salvador was being sued by OceanaGold/Pacific Rim company. "An applause for the people" said in emotional words Monsignor José Elías Rauda, Bishop of the Diocese Of San Vicente, at a mass officiated in the c...

For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale

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TELESUR For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale. After El Salvador won a decade-long legal battle against mining company OceanaGold on Friday, social organizations and communities pledged to continue fighting t...

ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute

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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 that it be granted US$314 million in compensation after being denied a permit to drill for gold....

Media Coverage: Victory of El Salvador Vs Pacific Rim

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Thanks to the organised opposition to mining in El Salvador at both the national and international level, the resounding legal victory of the Government of El Salvador over OceanaGold(Pacific Rim) generated an incredible amount of media coverage.  Below you will find find a compilation of so...

El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company

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Press Release: Today, the General Attorney of the Republic of El Salvador offered a press conference in Washington D.C. to share the results of the arbitration, about which he had been notified by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID/ CIADI), with respect to the ...

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