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1. Gold, Water and the Struggle for Basic Rights in El Salvador: (General mining reports ); D. Kingsbury 2014, OXFAM Australia This report examines the issues of the El Dorado gold mine project, and past and potential future impacts that has and already had on the Salvadoran environment, society ...; Created on 23 April 2016
2. Time is running out for the Legislative Assembly to ratify food and water as basic human rights in El Salvador: (Mining and Human Rights); ... took this opportunity to introduce legislative proposals to reflect the principles established by the UN and proposals for a constitutional reform to recognize the rights to food and water a basic human ...; Created on 23 April 2015
3. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty: (FTAs & ISDS); Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...; Created on 08 June 2012
4. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the country. We also have concerns that these men have been denied their basic right to due process,” 17 U.S. members of Congress said in a letter earlier this month. Known locally as “water defenders,” ...; Created on 20 December 2023
5. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... and above all to guarantee the protection of their human and universal rights, such as the right to water and basic sanitation. We call on the citizens of Guatemala and El Salvador, through their ...; Created on 12 June 2022
6. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... be supplied to populations. The first two meet the basic family needs for food, personal hygiene, cleaning, including raising domestic animals that do not constitute a commercial or lucrative activity; ...; Created on 23 December 2021
7. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a basic human right, the current administration continues to prioritize the interests of large companies over the interests of poor communities, approving projects that threaten sites for the recharging ...; Created on 14 December 2021
8. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to future campaigns. The water defenders are guided by three basic strategies: maintaining a positive message, recruiting unlikely allies, and building international support. From early on in the dispute, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
9. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... it a very profitable operation for Glencore. Mining activity in Espinar began more than three decades ago, and the province still suffers from many basic deficiencies. Over this time, a number of conflicts ...; Created on 22 April 2021
10. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining companies use cyanide to separate the gold from the rock. That cyanide then gets into the water. El Salvador is a very small country and El Salvador basically has one main river that supplies more ...; Created on 22 March 2021
11. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the ...; Created on 15 February 2021
12. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to cultivating basic grains or the production of poultry to survive. The rest of the inhabitants decide to migrate. In fact, most of the locals have at least one relative living and working in the United ...; Created on 05 January 2021
13. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated neglect and discrimination to their access to health and basic services has been a grave threat ...; Created on 17 December 2020
14. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... dust, water loss, and water or soil contamination, increasing their vulnerability to infection. They often lack basic services and may be battling other diseases related to impoverishment and isolation, ...; Created on 23 July 2020
15. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... m3 of water are “lost” in the ocean. However, arguing that “these waters have no use” is an absolutely arbitrary statement that ignores the basic concepts of hydrological cycles. It is important to point ...; Created on 22 July 2020
16. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... great lessons: That we can never forget how important powerful stories are rooted in local realities, and how they defend the most basic and important things for life, as water is, it is a powerful and ...; Created on 15 July 2020
17. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... framework to protects the defenders. Moreover, the Government of El Salvador has not signed the so-called Escazú Agreement, which basically recognizes the right of access to information in environmental ...; Created on 06 June 2020
18. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... groups later claimed that the killings were perpetrated by a government-backed paramilitary group. The Philippine Army has denied any links to the group. “We are basically living with half of our body ...; Created on 04 October 2019
19. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project: (FTAs & ISDS); ... treasures). Founded in 1994, the company is basically dedicated to developing technology to recover and commercialize wrecks of sunken ships, a business that allowed them to be listed in the New York ...; Created on 24 September 2019
20. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Law. But, within the new balance of power, the correlation of strength and transnational interests are aligning under a government that seems servile to the interests of corporations, and which basically ...; Created on 18 September 2019

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