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When Corporations Sue Governments

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By Manuel Perez Rocha In 2004, the Pacific Rim mining company applied to dig for gold in El Salvador. Pacific Rim (since acquired by the Canadian-Australian company OceanaGold) assured the government of then-President Antonio Saca that its work would be eco-friendly and would generate jobs. But ...

El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity

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By: Nick Buxton and Brid Brennan Re-published from: http://tinyurl.com/ksgh9lb The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and respon...

International community responds massively in support of El Salvador

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P. Cabezas Dozens of civil society organizations in five different countries and hundreds of thousands of people took action to demand OceanaGold's withdrawal from El Salvador.   While the future of metal mining in El Salvador is being debated by a panel of expert arbitrators who will...

Media coverage of the International Month of Action

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Media coverage of the International Month of Action SEPT: 5th: Sidney and Melbourne, Australia MUA: MUA Calls for Australian Resources Company to Drop Law Suit  Trade union officials are calling on all unionists, environmentalists and anyone with a social conscience to support the pe...

News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold

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The Washington Post: Protesters in D.C. ask for halt to gold mining in El Salvador, say it will endanger ecology. Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the ...

Final round for PacRim and El Salvador

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Héctor Silva Ávalos Translated from: http://www.laprensagrafica.com/2014/09/23/pacrim-y-el-salvador-a-ultimo-round Each of the parties had two hours to present their final arguments before the ICSID panelists. El Salvador argues that the multinational has no right to mine on national terri...

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