Skip to main content

NEWS

Solidarity Statement to the People of El Salvador on the day of OceanGold's AGM

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Melbourne, Australia - In May 2013, the Maritime Union of Australia took part in an International Fact Finding Mission to El Salvador. The study group came from a broad group of countries and backgrounds to the most densely populated country in Central America and began with a two day seminar at...

It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador

| Media Releases
PRESS RELEASE San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El Salvador, declaring that the "subject is closed" because “there is already a Law that permanently...

“Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha

| Regional News
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. His talk focused on the advances of corporate rights, which through legal instruments such as fre...

Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects

| Regional News
Edgardo Ayala - IPS News (IMAGE) Residents of the municipality of San Rafael Las Flores maintain a permanent sit-down in front of the Constitutional Court, in the centre of Guatemala’s capital, to demand that the country's highest court rule on the demand for a suspension of the San Rafael minin...

Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right

| Water Crisis El Salvador
Melissa Vida : America Magazine The archbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, points to Blessed Oscar Romero’s portrait on a shelf in his office. “Blessed Romero, is, without a doubt, a role model for us,” he tells America. “He is the one who marked a turning point in our history,...

Duterte's new warning to mining companies

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : Rappler This year is a key time to act on OceanaGold’s reforestation scam and the other problems from mining, given that its current 25-year mining agreement expires in 2019 On April 9, President Duterte issued a warning to mining companies in a...

News