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21. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... water and land, communities organized to challenge the mine. “We are making a public denouncement of the government and the companies from Canada and the United States that are imposing these projects ...; Created on 27 August 2018
22. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Victoria’s first challenge became building and maintaining the social and physical tools necessary for subsistence survival. The speeches, live music, and community dance and theater performances celebrated ...; Created on 24 August 2018
23. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
24. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... shared strategies of struggle as we face the challenges that the extractive industries and the governments impose on the people. Since colonization, the world powers have promoted policies of plundering ...; Created on 08 May 2018
25. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... growing frustrated and have begun to organize to take matters in their own hands. “If we don’t find a viable solution with the government, we will present a constitutional challenge against the prohibition ...; Created on 07 May 2018
26. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... although this achievement also represents more challenges for the environmental movement explained Pedro Cabezas facilitator of the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) and memebr of the ...; Created on 01 February 2018
27. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere because of the size of the lawsuit, and because of the huge challenge it posed to democracy, environmental rights, and sovereignty in this small nation.9 ...; Created on 26 June 2017
28. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... up of representatives of five of the eleven core organizations takes on the role- coordination with such a diversity of international allies was bound to present other challenges. For two years, between ...; Created on 23 June 2017
29. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... protection and human rights over corporate profits. Dr. Grzyb took the audience through an explanation of the population density of El Salvador and the various environmental challenges that face the country ...; Created on 08 March 2017
30. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of this group of environmental rights advocates, who gave up their lives in the struggle to defend the national territory. "We must continue in the fight, because our colleagues left behind the challenge ...; Created on 03 January 2017
31. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that oppose the use of arbitration under international trade and investment treaties. Activists and environmental groups say that corporations use ICSID to challenge governments’ right to set rules for ...; Created on 10 November 2016
32. Mega projects unite social movements from Honduras and El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) after the murder of Berta Caceres, expressed that we have the challenge to integrate social struggles and spread them throughout Central America. ...; Created on 17 September 2016
33. A Losing Proposition: The Failure of Canadian ISDS Policy at Home and Abroad: (General mining reports ); ... argue that ISDS is used to challenge actions taken by the state to protect the environment, public health or other important policy decisions. This report provides background information on the ISDS process, ...; Created on 30 April 2016
34. Myths and Omissions: Unpacking Obama Administration Defenses of Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (General mining reports ); Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Investor-state dispute settlement system empowers foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts, challenge government’s public interest policies before extrajudicial ...; Created on 30 April 2016
35. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... settlement” clause, now ubiquitous in free trade agreements, allows foreign investors to challenge any national laws and regulations that undercut their ability to make money. Worse still, the fate of ...; Created on 02 February 2016
36. El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... In the 1990s, after the civil war, El Salvador, encouraged by international donors and creditors, embraced mining as an opportunity for economic growth. Environmental activists challenged the policy, ...; Created on 03 January 2016
37. 5 reasons to oppose OceanaGold’s lawsuit against El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and bilateral treaties have allowed corporations to challenge environmental regulation, public health measures, labour protections, and even decisions of national courts. Investor-state arbitration means ...; Created on 11 July 2015
38. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Nine years after the first challenge was launched, the Free Trade Agreement between the US, Central America and the Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) was virtually declared constitutional by the Constitutional ...; Created on 31 May 2015
39. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... The basis for their case is that Pacific Rim was denied concessions because it failed to meet environmental impact and licencing requirements. It is also a legal challenge to El Salvadorian government ...; Created on 20 October 2014
40. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... OceanaGold’s mining permit for failing to comply with community and environment regulations. “We challenge the Aquino government to stand up against the corporate bully that is OceanaGold. The DENR must ...; Created on 25 September 2014

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