... effects of corporate mining activities. Various solidarity and investigative missions have also been held in Didipio in the Philippines, for instance in 2011, 2014 and 2015. These have exposed the implications ...
... starting as far back as the construction of the mine. As early as 2011, the Philippine Commission on Human Rights had found in an investigation of OceanaGold's construction phase that "human rights violations ...
... with signs of torture reminiscent from the executions carried out by death squads during the civil war in El Salvador. By 2011 three more antimining activists had been murdered: Ramiro Rivera, Dora Alicia ...
... Sorto, who was eight months pregnant, were murdered. Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, also from the Cabañas Environmental Com-mittee, was killed in June 2011.
In 2013, OceanaGold rescued Pacific Rim from near-bankruptcy ...
... and 187 homes had been bulldozed and burned in the process.
In 2011, the human rights ombudsperson called on the central government to suspend OceanaGold's permit to mine, and was refused.
Two anti-mining ...
... letter to the head of the World Bank in 2011 signed by 244 international civil society organizations; another in 2014 signed by over 300 international groups; two Amicus Curiae/Friends of the Court briefs ...
... (originally owned by Pacific Rim before being acquired by Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in 2013) in the northern province of Cabañas became the epicenter of the conflict. Between 2009-2011, four ...
... Committee and community activist Dora Alicia Recintos Sorto, eight months pregnant, were murdered. Then, in June 2011, Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, also from the Cabañas Environmental Committee, was killed. ...
... 17, 2011 - Juan Franciso Durán Ayala. A student anti-mining activist assassinated resisting Pacific Rim-OceanaGold in El Salvador.
December 7, 2012 - Cheryl Ananayo and Randy Nabayay. Ananayo was a member ...
... in 2011 to learn more about the mining resistance, Miguel greeted us at the airport.
As he drove us through mountainous roads to the office of his employer, ADES (the Social and Economic Development Association), ...
... under two successive left-wing governments.
An outside evaluation of the industry commissioned by the government in 2011 argued that El Salvador was not prepared to accept large mining projects. The study ...
... clothes in a spring. She was a mother of six and eight months pregnant at the time. The bullet killed her and her unborn child and injured her two-year-old son she was nursing.
On June 4th 2011, Jose ...
... Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Mining Sector -EAE- conducted in 2011, concluded that the conditions of environmental vulnerability of El Salvador pose a significant barrier to the possibility ...
... as storms, floods, and heat waves in 2011 include Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, El Salvador and the Philippines. This report analyzes the extent to which countries have been affected by climatic events ...
... and 83.9% in municipalities affected by the proposed project.
Between 2009 and 2011, four local environmental activists were murdered in Cabañas. Since then, several local organizations have also received ...
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), “Submission of Amicus Curiae Brief to Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12,” May 20, 2011, available at: http://www.ciel.org/Publications/PAC_RIM_Amicus_20May11_Eng.pdf ...
... Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador ratified MARN’s resolution and ordered Commerce Group initiate environmental recovery works immediately. In March 2011, a tribunal the International ...
... he travelled; and six days later, Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto and her unborn child were also murdered in La Maraña.
Later, in June 2011, Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a volunteer with the Cabañas Environmental ...
... proposal has been revised since 2011.
FMLN deputy, Jose Santos Melara, recognizes this issue is in limbo at the legislative assembly, it is behind other laws being discussed like the protection of pets ...
... programs. Furthermore, in 2011 he pressured El Salvador’s Ministry of Labor to dissolve the union at an AVX-Kyocera plant that manufactures SIM cards for his phone companies. Workers had formed the union ...