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1. Environmentalists step up pressure on El Salvador's 2014 presidential candidate: (Background and reports ); by: P. Cabezas As the February 2nd presidential elections in El Salvador quickly approach, environmental activists are stepping up pressure on candidates to address issues relating to the country`s precarious ...; Created on 20 January 2014
2. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to responsibly analyze the high costs of metallic mining and exercise its right to say “No". Nevertheless, despite El Salvador's environmental vulnerability, the clear threat posed by metal mining and the ...; Created on 14 December 2021
3. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... been under threat from international mining companies for decades, companies that are after El Salvador's gold. But an unlikely alliance came together to stop them. People on opposite sides of the bitter ...; Created on 22 March 2021
4. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... to recognize water as a public good and human right. According to El Salvador's legislation, after this session on October 15, the reform will have to be ratified by the next legislature and can therefore ...; Created on 30 November 2020
5. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... recognized as a human right in El Salvador, and the country is at risk of drought. Although lack of water regulation and climate change are two of the reasons for El Salvador's overall water deficit, in ...; Created on 11 September 2020
6. Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatizing water: (Water Crisis El Salvador); Catholic News Service SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — El Salvador's bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatizing water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to ...; Created on 24 June 2018
7. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); April 4th, 2018 A year since El Salvador's legislature unanimously approved a law prohibiting all metal mining activities in the country, Salvadoran organizations including the National Roundtable ...; Created on 06 May 2018
8. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... wanted to mine gold and silver in the country's most important watersheds. The underlying reason for the long and radical resistance to metallic mining is the threat this industry represents to El Salvador' ...; Created on 26 June 2017
9. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); * Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont : Foreign Policy in Focus U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town ...; Created on 26 June 2017
10. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); El Pais/EFE San Salvador, Feb 28 (EFE) .- El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudswoman, Raquel Caballero, congratulated today the residents of the town of Cinquera (northwest Cabañas), who last sunday rejected ...; Created on 08 March 2017
11. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... action is required for its approval. Both the Executive Decree and the Prohibition Law are instruments to prevent the looting of El Salvador's natural assets and guarantee respect for the human rights of ...; Created on 04 January 2017
12. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of People who would be affected by the contamination produced by the mining industry. "They helped their colleagues and our country against extractivist companies who want to take over El Salvador's resources, ...; Created on 03 January 2017
13. 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
14. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... put states and governments like ours against the wall, giving priority to the interests of international companies,” said Montes. After years of legal wrangling, the World Bank court awarded El Salvador' ...; Created on 10 November 2016
15. Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the government’s decision not to extend the permit was political. A panel of arbitrators agreed, in June 2012, with El Salvador's argument that Pacific Rim had set up a shell company in the United Stated ...; Created on 17 September 2016
16. Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the government’s decision not to extend the permit was political. A panel of arbitrators agreed, in June 2012, with El Salvador's argument that Pacific Rim had set up a shell company in the United Stated ...; Created on 17 September 2016
17. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... continue, Pacific Rim vs. El Salvador should remind us not to privilege foreign investors to the detriment of the national—or global—good." — Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies El Salvador' ...; Created on 18 May 2015
18. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars. Yanira Cortez, Deputy Attorney for the Environment for El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudsperson's Office and Marcos Gálvez, President ...; Created on 18 May 2015
19. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... place in an undemocratic, closed door arbitration tribunal and could undermine El Salvador's sovereignty and right to legislate social and environmental policies in the public's interests. For example, a ...; Created on 18 May 2015
20. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Oceana Gold Jeopardize El Salvador's Democracy and Drinking Water In anticipation of next week's court case, to be heard on Monday, September 15 at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 29 September 2014

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