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Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Council of Canadians : Rabble On Friday, dozens of people gathered outside the office of Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of El Salvador who have waited seven years for a World Bank tribunal decision in the controversial case of ...

International Allies statement on the victory of the people of El Salvador Vs OceanaGold

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
  To the people of El Salvador, To the communities of cabañas, To the organizations of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining, The organisations and individuals* who are part of the International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador congratulate you in the unequivocal legal victory tha...

El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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!

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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....

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