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1. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, ...; Created on 14 January 2021
2. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Dreams. Cavanagh, who co-authored with Robin Broad The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, stressed that Bukele "is desperate for revenues" because he "has so mismanaged ...; Created on 20 January 2023
3. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...; Created on 22 April 2021
4. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the descriptor “ordinary people” in the subtitle and throughout the book strikes an odd note. These are people who risked, and some lost, their lives to defend their homes and communities and in so doing ...; Created on 11 April 2021
5. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that came to be known as La Mesa. This essay is adapted from Robin Broad and John Cavanagh’s The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed. During those years, Marcelo ...; Created on 05 April 2021
6. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... first-hand about abuses by the same mining company, OceanaGold, in his province. Against extraordinary opposition, these communities convinced their government in 2017 to become the first in the world ...; Created on 28 March 2021
7. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marco Werman spoke with attorney Luis Parada, who led El Salvador’s defense team in a mining lawsuit at the World Bank, and Robin Broad, a co-author of the book, "The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People ...; Created on 22 March 2021
8. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... by what it called a “particular importance” given to the term “invested by investors,” the Swiss Federal Tribunal held that Article 1(2) is an ordinary asset-based definition of investment – known for ...; Created on 19 December 2020
9. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... interests of the wealthy at the expense of ordinary people trying to protect their community’s future. Solidarity and visibility from the international community have been among the strongest defences ...; Created on 01 September 2020
10. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); ... Mining companies are ignoring the real threats of the pandemic and continuing to operate, using any means available Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to shut down legitimate ...; Created on 19 July 2020
11. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... to the Guatemalan Constitution, the Convention has primacy over ordinary laws such as the Mining Law, since it is part of the constitutional block that governs Guatemala's internal law. Translation from: https://www.prensacomunitaria.org/en-el-estor-una-cadena-de-incumplimientos-y-desacatos-por-cgn-pronico-pone-en-riesgo-la-vida-de-las-personas-defensoras-de-la-vida/?fbclid=IwAR3Xi8biWGzQq2f_C_3PO29NZNTaOB0PGvKEQ5OtBihmf18Xo1hUjxx2Xks ...; Created on 12 June 2020
12. Governor Aduviri must remain in jail: (Regional News); ... extraordinary appeal within the corresponding legal time. One of the arguments presented in the appeal stated that Aduviri should be judged as a community member according to ILO Convention 169. However, ...; Created on 26 December 2019
13. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... both organizations’ blossoming successes over the years. The event, itself, reflected their extraordinary growth and community support as attendees came from municipalities far beyond Santa Marta, including ...; Created on 24 August 2018
14. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on civil groups have helped bring ordinary citizens into the struggle. Meanwhile, they’ve enjoyed the strong backing of the scientific community, which has concluded that fracking is one of the most polluting, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
15. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... has kept a moratorium on metal mining which, although it has yet to be enshrined in law, has proved useful in safeguarding the interests of ordinary citizens. Secondly it shows how different forms of ...; Created on 28 December 2016
16. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador: (FTAs & ISDS); ... treaty, 30 volumes and 2,500 pages, was ratified by 49 votes, 16 days after being released by the Ministry of Economy and was approved at an ordinary session of the Legislative Assembly that lasted 19 ...; Created on 31 May 2015
17. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... boast larger revenues than most countries' economies. And, if that weren't enough, corporations have gained extraordinary powers through trade and investment agreements to sue governments, often to override ...; Created on 29 September 2014
18. News Summary international campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the top 10 corporations boast larger revenues than most countries' economies. And, if that weren't enough, corporations have gained extraordinary powers through trade and investment agreements to sue ...; Created on 25 September 2014
19. The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Over the past several decades, multinational corporate Goliaths have helped to write and rewrite hundreds of rules skewing tax, trade, investment and other policies in their favor. The extraordinary ...; Created on 13 February 2014
20. A plea to Australia: Put life & dignity before gold & profit: (Water no Gold); ... a call to the workers and managers of OceanaGold, and to the millions of ordinary Australians whose superannuation funds are invested in this company. We’ve heard that there have been environmentalists ...; Created on 10 November 2013

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