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1. General Environment Backrounders: (Category); Created on 14 March 2016
2. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); Lexology Hogan Lovells A commitment of capital in a foreign state, particularly with long-term profit horizons, can be a risky undertaking. When a host state harms a foreign company's investment, the ...; Created on 06 January 2021
3. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... polluted the environment and crippled the livelihood of farmers. (Photo by John Aaron Mark Macaraeg / Bulatlat) The environment, in particular, has remained under the radar despite long facing increasing ...; Created on 25 July 2020
4. REPORT: Golden opportunities for profits, corporate plunder for OceanaGold Corporation: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Report by IBON International "Towards curbing OceanaGold’s dirty operations in El Salvador and the Philippines, efforts of people’s organisations, communities, environmental advocates as well as international ...; Created on 24 August 2018
5. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case: (ISDS); Public Citizen Global Trade Watch The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...; Created on 30 April 2016
6. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (OceanaGold/Pacific Rim); ... and environmental consequences of mining in El Salvador, an already water-stressed country, and leaders and organizations began to express concerns. The firm responded by filing a claim under the CAFTA ...; Created on 30 April 2016
7. 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 ...; Created on 23 April 2016
8. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By teleSUR / Heather Gies The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank ...; Created on 11 July 2015
9. NEWS RELEASE: El Salvador Facing $300m Claim from Mining Multinational under ‘ISDS’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the worst excess of corporate greed. The claim is being decided in a tribunal under the tainted “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” (ISDS) procedure which corporations and some governments want to see ...; Created on 17 April 2015
10. Consensus reached to reform dispute resolutions under Investment Law: (FTAs & ISDS); ... reforming Article 15 and including an aspect relating to the settlement of disputes which provide that any controversy that is not under a treaty or agreement will be adjudicated through local legislation." ...; Created on 09 July 2013
11. El Salvador loses on three out of four counts, as anti-environment and anti-development case launched under CAFTA drags on: (FTAs & ISDS); El Salvador loses on three out of four counts, as anti-environment and anti-development case launched under CAFTA drags on Todd Tucker, June 4, 2012 El Salvador lost three out of four of its major ...; Created on 05 July 2012
12. Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy: (FTAs & ISDS); Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy Posted By Triplecrisis On June 28, 2012 @ 9:00 am In Guest Bloggers | No Comments Robin Broad, guest blogger Today’s ...; Created on 05 July 2012
13. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (FTAs & ISDS); CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case 2010 Pacific Rim Mining Corp., a Canadian-based multinational firm, sought to establish a massive gold mine ...; Created on 05 March 2012
14. Public Citizen Commerce Group Backgrounder: (Background and reports ); Backgrounder CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...; Created on 28 February 2012
15. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... - which involves the suspension of various constitutional rights-, but in this case, it should not apply because those charged have no relationships with gangs. In view of these events, the undersigned ...; Created on 13 January 2023
16. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... carried out under article 64 of the Guatemalan Municipal Code. We express: That today, September 21, 2022, at 3:45 pm, we were notified about an injunction against the Commission specifically ...; Created on 23 September 2022
17. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... the tri national basin of the Lempa River is a resource shared as a unitary set of superficial and underground water bodies that flow to a common river mouth, as such it is an important resource that guarantees ...; Created on 12 June 2022
18. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... and she was involved in the struggle of indigenous and black peoples. This is how she became one of the founders of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (the Confederación de Pueblos Autóctonos ...; Created on 25 December 2021
19. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... "green mining," "modern mining," and "responsible mining." But the experience with metallic mining in Central America, and globally, teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Central American mines ...; Created on 14 December 2021
20. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... have water as a fundamental human right", underlined the Cardinal. In recent days, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that the issue of water will be discussed in the Legislative Assembly and ...; Created on 15 June 2021

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