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Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights in Practice, a guide to ILO Convention No. 169

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization adopted the Indigenous and Tribal People’s Convention (ILO Convention No. 169) in 1989, which has been ratified by 20 countries. Convention No. 169 was developed to protect self-identified indigenous people and attempts to a...

KAIROS Participatory Research with partners on Free, Prior and Informed Consent: CEIBA’s experience in Guatemala

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Teresa Sanic and CEIBA This report discusses general background on the mining conflict in Guatemala, the current social, economic and political state of the country, the community responses to mining megaprojects, the positive and negative impacts of mining concessions, the connection that Canad...

Undermining the Land: the defense of community rights and the environment in Mexico

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Project Newsletter The value of gold has soared due to the recent financial crisis making it a very profitable industry. However, the extraction of these resources is a source of conflict among affected communities, organization that defend human rights, mining companies and public authorities. ...

'Let Us Care for Everyone's Home': The Catholic Church's Role in Keeping Gold Mining Out of El Salvador

| Background and reports
  A recently published essay by Phd candidate Rachel Nadelman looks at the role of the Catholic Church in the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador.

PRESS RELEASE: Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Download the Report here (Ottawa/Washington/Melbourne)  A new study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation at the local level is deceitful, disrespectful and dangerous. Mining, Corporate...

El Salvador: ‘We will never lose our faith’

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Vidalina Morales, president, Association for Economic and Social Development of El Salvador (ADES) interviewed for The Guardian in response to the murder of Honduran activist Berta Caceres.   I felt indignation and sadness at Berta’s murder. I cried a lot and felt pain.  And it is not...

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