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1. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of the population, ”González added. Regarding the historical crisis on access to drinking water that the population faces, González recalled the management of the water crisis last January when the National ...; Created on 17 June 2020
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... of the Water Defenders, environmental organizations in El Salvador and their International Allies who have historically opposed metallic mining are calling for international days of action to start on ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... from registered voters to request municipal authorities of Asunción Mita to carry out a Municipal Consultation, as per art. 64 of the Municipal Code. Historically, communities closest to mining projects ...; Created on 22 September 2022
4. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...; Created on 23 December 2021
5. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in El Salvador, the Canadian mining company, Pacific Rim, in the exploration phase alone of its El Dorado project in San Isidro, Cabañas, dried up more than 20 historical community water holes. Instead ...; Created on 14 December 2021
6. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...; Created on 29 June 2021
7. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the last four centuries.” “Historically, the Philippines Mining Law of 1905, which was made at the time that the Philippines was still a colony of the US, sets the tone for the way mining operations ...; Created on 12 May 2021
8. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... not only to block Pacific Rim’s mine but to impose a nationwide ban on metals mining. Even as they grieved, they set aside their historical enmity with rightist parties that were linked to their own community’s ...; Created on 23 April 2021
9. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... Company (CMC); and BHP, Anglo American and Glencore, as the owners of Cerrejón. The complaints to the OECD denounce the impacts on the environment and human rights that communities in La Guajira have historically ...; Created on 22 April 2021
10. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... least publicly. Historically, however, the U.S. government has demonstrated its interest in the control of natural and water resources. In fact, the National Aqueduct and Sewer Administration (ANDA) ...; Created on 01 December 2020
11. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Rather, it has been imposed to adapt the productive, commercial and economic objectives of these sectors in a region that has historically struggled to save Lake Izabal from the effects of mining. Indeed, ...; Created on 20 July 2020
12. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... resources. Representatives of civil society organizations, have argued that the national reality of El Salvador is historically plagued with abuses, corruption and theft of the national wealth, and the ...; Created on 20 April 2020
13. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... is linked to the powerful Facusse family. The authors reviewed recent historical and political events in Honduras, with a particular focus on the last decade and found that the 2009 coup d'état and ...; Created on 20 April 2020
14. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... The Bajo Aguan Region in northern Honduras has historically been the setting for violent territorial disputes. Conflicts in the region can be traced back to the 1960s and 70s, when the Honduran government ...; Created on 24 October 2019
15. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... privileging the industrial and agro-industrial sectors who have historically polluted and degraded natural resources and have benefited economically by commodifying public goods; to avoid violations to ...; Created on 26 September 2019
16. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... especially in the territories of indigenous people, historically expelled from their land and pushed into forested areas. “But that’s the agriculture that sustains food security,” he said. The report ...; Created on 07 May 2019
17. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... obstruction of public services, disturbing the peace, and aggravated extortion. "Aggravated extortion is a charge used historically in Peru for organized crime cases, but is increasingly being used ...; Created on 28 August 2018
18. A Binding Treaty about corporations can be an instrument to guarantee the respect of our rights and territories: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería “Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. ...; Created on 14 November 2017
19. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”: (Territories Free of Mining); ... International observers from Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, joined in this historical democratic process to provide insight and support to the community consultation, as well as to learn about community ...; Created on 18 April 2015
20. The water issue is thorny for the right wing in El Salvador: Interview with Lourdes Palacios: (Mining and Human Rights); ... scarcity which is increased by soil erosion and by not having land suitable for filtration into aquifers. Historically we have had a policy of excessive deforestation and the last remaining forest areas ...; Created on 23 January 2015

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