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1. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and "especially for deciding and promoting the defense of life and the environment," said a statement by the Office of the Attorney General for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH). The referendum was ...; Created on 08 March 2017
2. Fifth referendum on mining is called in Cinquera, Cabañas: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the department of Cabañas were asked to participate in a public referendum, to be held in the next months, to give their opinion in favor or against metal mining within their territory. Cinquera is ...; Created on 03 January 2017
3. Municipality of Arcatao calls for a referendum on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); By Marvin Diaz: Gato Encerrado - Translation: P. Cabezas Various social organizations in collaboration with the Municipality of Arcatao, Chalatenango, unveiled a plan for the fourth referendum on metal ...; Created on 30 October 2015
4. Arcatao: the next municipality to hold a referendum on mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in order to ask the Municipal Council for the call of a public referendum that could declare this Municipality a “Mining-Free Territory”. Six years after the implementation of an administrative freeze ...; Created on 29 September 2015
5. Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.: (Territories Free of Mining); ... to be delivered to the municipal City Council. The petition requested the council of San Jose Las Flores to conduct of a local referendum to declare the municipality a “Territory free of Mining." ...; Created on 08 September 2014
6. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in neighboring Guatemala, which is owned by Canadian company Bluestone Resources. A recent referendum found that 89 percent of locals from nearby Asunción Mita opposed mining activity due to environmental ...; Created on 06 April 2023
7. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); A municipal referendum was held on September 18 in Asunción Mita, Guatemala, that will impact the future of the Cerro Blanco mine. The question on the ballot aske d people if they were in agreement ...; Created on 22 September 2022
8. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... level, to force companies like Glencore to be effectively responsible. One such is the Responsible Business Initiative, brought to a referendum in November 2020 in Switzerland. In an interview with TerraJusta, ...; Created on 22 April 2021
9. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Charter, subject to ratification by a simple majority of natural Residents through a referendum. Individuals or local communities affected by the PZ’s activities may have restricted access to the PZ ...; Created on 15 February 2021
10. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... use other mechanisms that they undoubtedly have, such as referendums,” Sonia Gutiérrez, an expert with the Association of Mayan Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala, told IPS. The extractive industry has ...; Created on 09 May 2018
11. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... devastation that the San Sebastián mine wreaked on the people and environment, and participated as an international observer in the first local mining referendum, in San José Las Flores. An overwhelming ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... help of local organizations, used the community referendum process as a legally binding tool to take direct political action. Since 2014, five municipalities in key mining zones voted overwhelmingly to ...; Created on 26 June 2017
13. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and Cabañas have voted overwhelmingly against mining in municipal referendums, the latest of which was just last month. After a decade of calls for a legislated mining ban to no real avail, the issue ...; Created on 16 April 2017
14. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Allies Against Mining in El Salvador, a key organizing and solidarity group. Over the past three years, Cabezas has worked within local networks to organize municipal referendums on mining. In community ...; Created on 16 April 2017
15. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining through a local referendum and the Catholic Church of El Salvador had called for massive participation in a public protest to demand legislators to start discussions on the prohibition of mining. ...; Created on 16 April 2017
16. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... after the referendum, the National Round Table Against Metallic Mining. Cinquera was the fifth Salvadoran municipality to rejects metal mining; previously the towns of San Jose Las Flores, San Isidro ...; Created on 09 March 2017
17. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the talk were several members of the international delegation that had observed a referendum on mining in the community of Cinquera the previous week, as well as the Director of SalvAide, Alfredo Marroquin. ...; Created on 08 March 2017
18. How communities in El Salvador are organizing to block mining projects: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...; Created on 05 March 2017
19. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... referendums to ban metal mining.” The mayors from Chalatenango, from San José Las Flores, Arcatao, and Nueva Trinidad respectively, have all passed municipal ordinances prohibiting mining in their communities. ...; Created on 13 February 2017
20. FMLN Will Vote for the Ban on the Mining Industry in the Country: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Flores, Nueva Trinidad, Las Vueltas, and San Isidro Labrador they are adding to the initiative to eradicate all forms of mining in the nation’s territory. “We have initiated [the process] with referendums ...; Created on 10 February 2017

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