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1. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); A new amicus brief supports human rights and environmental protection in El Salvador’s battle to uphold environmental laws against Pac Rim Mining Corporation’s lawsuit. By Lily Simon First published ...; Created on 06 August 2014
2. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Feminist Camp "Viva Berta" for three and a half months (in the trial against David Castillo, who was identified as a co-author of the murder of Berta Cáceres), in front of the Supreme Court of Justice. ...; Created on 25 December 2021
3. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world of corporate power, to have a story where David beats Goliath. And rarer still to have one that reads like a fast-paced thriller. The brave activists whom Robin Broad and John Cavanagh write ...; Created on 14 January 2021
4. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... home in Honduras by hired hitmen in 2016. A judge will decide whether the case against one of the alleged killers, David Castillo, gets sent to trial. At least 212 land and environmental defenders were ...; Created on 17 August 2020
5. Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts: (Regional News); ... border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"> The mountains of the department of La Libertad in Peru. Pan America Silver operates the Quiruvilca mine in La Libertad. Image by David Almeida via Wikimedia ...; Created on 02 March 2020
6. El Salvador Church Leaders Fight for Ban on Mining Exploitation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with the ban, which included a decision not to renew the company’s permit to extract gold. El Salvador finally won the David and Goliath battle against the corporation last year. The moratorium set a ...; Created on 10 February 2017
7. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... state in face of a foreign mining company (a sort of David and Goliath story), or because of the antagonism arbitration proceedings can generate from a human rights point of view, or because of the harmful ...; Created on 28 December 2016
8. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and the Council of Canadians, demonstrated support for El Salvador's sovereignty in deciding to stop issuing mining licenses. In this multi-million dollar David-and-Goliath case, PacRim Cayman (now ...; Created on 10 November 2016
9. El Salvador: ‘We will never lose our faith’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Vidalina Morales, president, Association for Economic and Social Development of El Salvador (ADES) interviewed for The Guardian in response to the murder of Honduran activist Berta Caceres. I felt ...; Created on 19 March 2016
10. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... oriented arbitration tribunal decides on a case in which human rights violations play a role is unacceptable”, lawyer David Morales says. He studies his documents, the blue-white-blue national flag hanging ...; Created on 03 January 2016
11. New Laws Seek to Limit Mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... said David Morales, El Salvador’s human rights solicitor, during the referendum in in Arcatao last Nov. 8. According to official data from the Ministry of Economy, El Salvador has nine requests for permits ...; Created on 02 January 2016
12. Statement in support of El Salvador from Amianan Salakniban in the Philippines (2): (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... may be a small developing country like ours but they are fighting like David against Goliath. If more Davids will fight Goliath, surely enough we shall see victory,” Mangili added. The El Salvadoran ...; Created on 28 October 2015
13. Municipality of San Jose Las Flores declared the first territory free of mining in El Salvador: (Territories Free of Mining); ... Rights Ombudsman David Morales hailed the process as a ground breaking event for the continued development of democracy in El Salvador and recommended in a press release, dated Sept. 22nd, that “national ...; Created on 24 September 2014
14. Solidarity Statement from Philippine Groups on El Salvador vs Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... The David-versus-Goliath nature of this continuing battle between communities and the government against mining corporations in El Salvador is clearly evident in the ongoing investment case filed by ...; Created on 11 September 2014
15. The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... emerging to try to reverse the momentum. But just like David with his slingshot, the local, environmental and government leaders seeking to revise rules to favor communities and the planet must pick their ...; Created on 13 February 2014
16. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); ... of the 2014 presidential election would keep the current moratorium on mining. In November 2013, newly appointed Human Rights Ombudsman for the Defense of Human Rights, David Morales, also announced ...; Created on 20 January 2014
17. Presidential candidates fail environmental agenda: (Media Releases); ... of Human Rights, David Morales, reiterated in a public statement the calls his office had previously made for the government to make constitutional amendments for the recognition of the rights to water ...; Created on 09 January 2014
18. Environmental Alliance of El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... represented by pending metal mining projects, we state: On Friday, November 29th, the Ombudsman for the Defense of Human Rights in El Salvador, David Ernesto Morales, reiterated in a public statement ...; Created on 12 December 2013
19. Central American anti-mining activists form coalition in Nicaragua: (2013 North America Tour); ... David Pereira, this unity is “urgently" needed because poor and rural communities have a difficult time defending themselves against large multinational corporations. "Companies take advantage of the ...; Created on 08 December 2013
20. Fact Finding Mission: (2013 Fact Finding Mission); INTERNATIONAL FACT FINDING MISSION - EL SALVADOR MAY 09-13, 2013, CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR, UCA The small country of El Salvador and its citizens are caught up in a David vs. Goliath ...; Created on 15 April 2013

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