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21. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in suits related to gold and silver projects that communities have spent many years fighting, facing criminalization and threats to defend their water, health, ...; Created on 03 May 2019
22. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... US companies (RDV and TECO) and is currently subject to other arbitration claims for hundreds of millions of dollars. BACKGROUND Since 2011, the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc ...; Created on 26 February 2019
23. Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th.: (Regional News); ... than one hundred national and international organizations have publicly denounced the criminalization of protest in Peru. The case of Aduviri is emblematic of the widespread judicial persecution and generalised ...; Created on 21 September 2018
24. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the cost of natural resources, especially water. A few examples: In the historic case of the plantation, El Espino, just north of El Salvador´s capital city, hundreds of acres of forest and coffee ...; Created on 27 August 2018
25. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... mining interests. On another hot Salvadoran morning, hundreds of people gathered in San Isidro’s central park for the event, titled, “Exigimos el Derecho Humano al Agua, No a la Propuesta Privatizadora ...; Created on 24 August 2018
26. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... of Investment Disputes, ICSID, for $100 million US dollars. The company abandoned the community of San Sebastian shortly after losing its permit leaving hundreds of unemployed, a local river contaminated ...; Created on 07 May 2018
27. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... interests hovering over them. Nonetheless, the demonstrated tenacity and ability of Salvadorans to draw literally hundreds of organizations around the world to join them a they to defend their preference ...; Created on 06 May 2018
28. Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... on Corporate Accountability, and – with the support of tens and hundreds of thousands of Canadians over the years – has continuously fought for a such an oversight body, as well as for legal accountability ...; Created on 08 February 2018
29. To prevent water privatization: the next battle for Salvadorean environmentalists: (Water no Gold); P. Cabezas More than one hundred member organizations of the Alliance Against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador mobilized throughout the country to deliver letters to regional Legislative offices ...; Created on 27 July 2017
30. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to pay. The suit — and lack of a thorough government investigation into the murders — strengthened the resolve of the anti-mining movement and gave them the moral high ground. Hundreds of local and national-level ...; Created on 26 June 2017
31. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Mexico and Central America, which has enriched foreign corporations and domestic elites for hundreds of years. The gold veins run through the north of El Salvador, right through the Lempa River watershed, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
32. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... ban. But in other countries, where no such moratorium has existed, and where hundreds of permits or licenses have already been given, once communities and governments begin questioning the extractivist ...; Created on 23 June 2017
33. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... we asked him how he’d come to opposing mining. He pointed to our water bottle and said “Just like you, water is our priority.” In the years since, we’ve met hundreds of people in Cabañas who have risked ...; Created on 10 November 2016
34. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Mr. Orellana. "For the right to this land, we have paid with our blood and the blood of hundreds of our relatives that were massacred here, and we will defend this land with our blood, if necessary, from ...; Created on 27 September 2016
35. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of OceanaGold: even during the exploration stage, their operations ‘eased out’ community opposition through the torching of hundreds of homes, the strafing of barricaders with bullets, and ultimately through ...; Created on 26 September 2016
36. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (OceanaGold/Pacific Rim); ... demanding compensation for not being able to drill in El Salvador. This article explains the case between Pacific Rim and El Salvador, and how Pacific Rim has used CAFTA to demand hundreds of millions ...; Created on 30 April 2016
37. PRESS RELEASE: Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... “OceanaGold claims it is committed to improving conditions in local communities, but this is absurd when the company is suing El Salvador for hundreds of millions of dollars in a process designed to ...; Created on 23 March 2016
38. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... homes for decades; and, the lack of prospects for employment have forced hundreds of members of the community to practice artisanal mining under unsafe working conditions and utilizing practices that allow ...; Created on 02 March 2016
39. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... one of the hundreds of climate activists arrested while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline outside the White House. So when the president finally pulled the plug on the project last November, it felt ...; Created on 02 February 2016
40. Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... rain, on Thursday October 22nd the sun came back to shine on hundreds of community members and organizations as they gathered for a protest in front of the World Trade Center in the elite Colonia Escalòn ...; Created on 27 October 2015

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