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Women in Resistance Against the World Bank

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Antonia Recinos - ADES/Radio Victoria On Thursday October 22, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining-MNFM and representatives of various communities and social organizations gathered outside the offices of the World Bank in San Salvador  to express their firm opposition to metallic...

Municipality of Arcatao calls for a referendum on mining

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
By Marvin Diaz: Gato Encerrado - Translation: P. Cabezas Various social organizations in collaboration with the Municipality of Arcatao, Chalatenango, unveiled a plan for the fourth referendum on metal mining to be held on November 8 this year. The consultation aims to get public support to adop...

Statement in support of El Salvador from Amianan Salakniban in the Philippines (2)

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
LEARN FROM EL SALVADOR WHO KICKED OCEANAGOLD OUT Press Release Amianan Salakniban, the broadest network of environmental organizations and advocates in North Luzon, Philippines, expresses their support for El Salvador’s Day of Action against OceanaGold last October 22. “The victory of the peop...

Christian Romero Initiative and Stop Mad Mining invite Bernardo Belloso from CRIPDES to Europe

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Von Svenja Riebow: Amerika21  - Translation: Marina Bonetti From September 30th to October 15th, Bernardo Belloso, president of the Association for Development travelled on a speaking tour through Germany, Slovakia and Romania to report on the social resistance against gold mining in E...

Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By Marina Bonetti Communities and organizations gathered in front of the World Bank in San Salvador to demand a fair verdict on the lawsuit of Pacific Rim vs El Salvador. After days of uninterrupted rain, on Thursday October 22nd the sun came back to shine on hundreds of community members and ...

El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
El Diario de Hoy - Translation: Marina Bonetti A diplomatic document shows that Pacific Rim lied to the tribunal about the time in which it decided to initiate the lawsuit against El Salvador before the World Bank. The ICSID tribunal could re-open the case, after having already taken an interim...

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