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21. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... it has been recommended to the Legislative Assembly the recognition of the human right to water, the ratification of the Escazú Agreement, and the resumption of the discussion of the Food Sovereignty Law. ...; Created on 06 June 2020
22. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of our common goods. In this context, we welcome with satisfaction the decision taken by the current Environment and Climate Change Commission, in January 2020, to reopen the legislative debate on this ...; Created on 20 April 2020
23. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... Geology and Mines (INHGEOMIN) must cancel the mining licences granted in the protected area of Carlos Escaleras National Park; The repeal of Legislative Decree 252-2013 that modified the core area of ...; Created on 20 April 2020
24. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... led by the municipal corporation of Tocoa, headed by the mayor Adam Funez; the coordinator of LIBRE and former president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, and Members of the Legislative Assembly belonging ...; Created on 26 December 2019
25. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... to pending environmental remediation and implementing alternative economic activities for artisanal miners, known as "güiriseros". El Salvador made history in March 2017, when the Legislative Assembly ...; Created on 26 December 2019
26. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... exploitation permit at the El Dorado mine, in San Isidro, Cabañas. These events allowed the Legislative Assembly, in March 2017, to unanimously pass the prohibition of metal mining in the national territory. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
27. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... Law on the Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved by the Legislative Assembly in 2017. Also, environmentalists are concerned about attempts to reform the regulations to open the doors to mining companies. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
28. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... the concession was granted to Inversiones los Pinares there was a suspicious legislative reform of Decree 127-2012, which declared the current mining site as a protected area known as the Montaña of Botaderos or ...; Created on 24 October 2019
29. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Of members of the Legislative Assembly, to discuss and approve the General Water Law, which guarantees water as a human right and make sure that the regulatory body that is created be a public body. Of ...; Created on 26 September 2019
30. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the Ministry of Economy, fifteen mining projects have ceased to be active in El Salvador, but since March 2017, date of the approval of the Metallic Mining Prohibition Act by the Legislative Assembly, ...; Created on 18 September 2019
31. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... a continuing context that the legislative probe intended to look into. Violations were noted as early as 2007 involving the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous Tuwali-Ifugaos in the mine’s area. ...; Created on 16 September 2019
32. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... steps. The first is "the design of policy and legislation that modifies our legal system to make way for mining projects and to create new crimes for those participating in social protests...legislative ...; Created on 28 August 2018
33. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Despite this worrisome scenario, senior representatives of the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), in a recent hearing with the Committee on Environment and Climate Change of the Legislative ...; Created on 27 August 2018
34. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of commodification of our vital liquid. We denounce the arrogant water privatization strategy promoted by the oligarchic groups of the country and pushed through the Legislative Assembly by the right ...; Created on 25 June 2018
35. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... submitted it to the multiparty legislative Environment and Climate Change Commission for discussion. In 2012 important advances were made when the Legislature approved a bill to reform to Article 69 ...; Created on 24 June 2018
36. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Simeón Cañas (UCA) teamed up with lawyers from the university´s Department of Juridical Sciences to develop a new proposal. The bill was presented to the Legislative Assembly on February 6 of 2017 by an ...; Created on 22 June 2018
37. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); PRESS RELEASE San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El ...; Created on 31 May 2018
38. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... appropriate procedures (…) whenever consideration is being given to legislative or administrative measures which may affect them directly,” such as when a national or municipal state institution grants ...; Created on 09 May 2018
39. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... Given the results of the legislative elections on March 4th and the possibility losing the upcoming presidential elections in February 2019, should make the current government´s promises to artisanal ...; Created on 07 May 2018
40. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Mirian Garcia - Varguardia Organizations that were key players in the struggle to prohibit metal mining in El Salvador, expressed their concern about the upcoming legislative political balance of power ...; Created on 07 May 2018

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