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Responsible Mining: The Key to Profitable Resource Development

| Background and reports
Goodland, Robert. “Responsible Mining: The Key to Profitable Resource Development,” Sustainability4, no. 9 (2012): 2099-2126. Available at: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/9/2099

Research reveals that right wing parties collaborate with mining companies in the department of Cabanas.

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By Wilber Ruano: RNES An investigation by MiningWatch Canada reports that the activities of the El Dorado Foundation, originally established by Pacific Rim in El Salvador in 2005, and now run by OCEANAGOLD, violate the rights of the inhabitants of the department of Cabañas. Researcher Jennifer Mo...

“El Dorado Foundation” develops misleading social programs: Jennifer Moore

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By Gloria Orellana  - CoLatino "The activities of the El Dorado Foundation are misleading, are dangerous and show a lack of deep respect for the people of Cabañas and El Salvador," said Jennifer Moore, Coordinator of the Latin America Program Mining Watch Canada, while presenting a joint res...

'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.  Abstract: "A majority of Salvadoran citizens and political leaders alike are opposed to mining, citing the country’s environmental degradation...

Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.

| Commerce Group
The Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights released a Special Report on the toxic legacy of the San Sebastian mine and the impacts on the human rights of the affected populations.    The Special Report, written by an international multidisciplinary team of experts in human rights and internati...

Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Anna Backmann and Christian Wimberger: CIR People taking part in the delegation from the United States, Canada, France, and Germany together with workers of the organization ADES.  El Salvador, November 2nd to 10th, 2015 As we step into Bernardo Belloso’s office in San Salvador on Novem...

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