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41. Australian company sues El Salvador for right to mine: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... corporations to sue governments over any laws or actions that affect their ability to make profits. They take away from sovereign governments the right to make laws that might protect the environment ...; Created on 11 September 2014
42. Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...; Created on 26 June 2014
43. Environmentalists call for concrete signals of a sustainability agenda for El Salvador: (Background and reports ); ... El Salvador. For more than 20 years of consecutive right wing governments, marches to the presidential palace were stopped blocks away from the main entrance and were received with trench wire fences and ...; Created on 12 June 2014
44. Sanches Ceren will prevent mining in the Trifinio región.: (Cerro Blanco); ... Asuncion Mita, Guatemala , 18 kilometers away from Metapan. A technical report carried out by Salvadoran authorities, after a visit to the mine, stated that the project has many shortcomings that could ...; Created on 04 March 2014
45. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 75 metres away,” says Guevara, “but we never imagined that it was Dora, that she had been killed; there was a grassy slope and we couldn’t see where she had been killed.” He remembers Dora as a child: ...; Created on 13 February 2014
46. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); ... risk management policies, and a commitment to end the threat of mega mining and hydroelectric projects." With the elections just a few days away, environmental leaders are already re-aligning their strategic ...; Created on 20 January 2014
47. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The ...; Created on 13 January 2014
48. PRESS RELEASE: Mesa condemns attempted murder: (Media Releases); ... directed at Mr. Guevara. Fortunately Mr. Guevara was not hit by a single bullet, but was less than one foot away from been hit. The attack occurred at dusk and from a distance that prevented the perpetrator ...; Created on 09 October 2013
49. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to North. This "paradigm" of responsible mining focuses on increasing the taxes that corporations pay to the Southern government (or doing away with tax holidays). So, for instance, the Philippine government ...; Created on 22 September 2013
50. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... young boys play swordfight with ragged sticks in the rural Salvadoran town of San Sebastian. They advance toward each other, hopping from rock to rock, then pivot away in the nick of time. One boy edges ...; Created on 15 July 2013

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