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Salvadoran Deputy Ombudswoman for the Defense of Environment rights begins a tour in Canada on the case of OceanaGold

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE  Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez,  began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold mining corporation which has sued the Central American country for 301 million doll...

Time is running out for the Legislative Assembly to ratify food and water as basic human rights in El Salvador

| Mining and Human Rights
 P. Cabezas  Environmental organizations poised to have a ratification vote before the legislature dissolves on April 30th. An open letter addressed to to president of El Salvador from the UN’s Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Water, Leo Heller, and Special Rapporteur on Food,...

Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”

| Territories Free of Mining
Juan Carlos Jimenez - Upside Down World Nueva Trinidad, an agricultural town in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador, became the third municipality in the country to declare itself a “Territory Free of Mining” after having a historic popular community consultation on March 29. In a pro...

WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Gabriel Labrador- Equal Times The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company’s application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it w...

NEWS RELEASE: Canadian mining company threatens El Salvador’s water

| Media Releases
Ottawa – Canadian investments are coming between citizens of El Salvador and their water, says a new report. Authored by Meera Karunananthan of the Blue Planet Project and Susan Spronk of the University of Ottawa, the report highlights the tensions between ...

NEWS RELEASE: El Salvador Facing $300m Claim from Mining Multinational under ‘ISDS’

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION Brussels, 15 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine):  The ITUC has described a $300m claim against El Salvador by an Australian/Canadian mining conglomerate as an example of the worst excess of corporate greed. The claim is being decided in a tribunal under the t...

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