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El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
By: Nick Buxton and Brid Brennan Re-published from: http://tinyurl.com/ksgh9lb The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and respon...

International community responds massively in support of El Salvador

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
P. Cabezas Dozens of civil society organizations in five different countries and hundreds of thousands of people took action to demand OceanaGold's withdrawal from El Salvador.   While the future of metal mining in El Salvador is being debated by a panel of expert arbitrators who will...

Media coverage of the International Month of Action

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
Media coverage of the International Month of Action SEPT: 5th: Sidney and Melbourne, Australia MUA: MUA Calls for Australian Resources Company to Drop Law Suit  Trade union officials are calling on all unionists, environmentalists and anyone with a social conscience to support the pe...

News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
The Washington Post: Protesters in D.C. ask for halt to gold mining in El Salvador, say it will endanger ecology. Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the ...

Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador

| Territories Free of Mining
P. Cabezas Anti mining activists poised to organize at least ten more consultations in the Chalatenango region by the end of 2015.   September 21st, marked another historic day for San Jose Las Flores, a sleepy town nestled among the hills of the department of Chalatenango, as it vote...

Final round for PacRim and El Salvador

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Héctor Silva Ávalos Translated from: http://www.laprensagrafica.com/2014/09/23/pacrim-y-el-salvador-a-ultimo-round Each of the parties had two hours to present their final arguments before the ICSID panelists. El Salvador argues that the multinational has no right to mine on national terri...

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