... operations may resume regardless of the outcome of the consultation process.
“Consultation should be seen as an intercultural dialogue in good faith, in which consensus and the reciprocal accommodation ...
... General Water Law, a bill that recognizes water as a human right and a common good that must be managed publicly with a focus on sustainability, priority and affordability for domestic use, as well as ...
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 ...
... good that should be publicly managed with focus on sustainability, accessible domestic use and regulation of commercial and industrial use.
The debate has not always been civil, in 2007, 17 leaders ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... roles: “We argue that water is a public good, not a merchandise. It’s a human right, a source of life.”
“As the church, we are involved,” Archbishop Escobar Alas says. “We’re thinking about collecting ...
... of the common goods.
The harmful effects of these politics have affected mainly indigenous peoples, rural / peasant communities and environmental defenders who have experienced harsh repression, prosecution ...
... a good defense and the company made a lot of mistakes—but for us it was an issue of democracy.”
These developments added momentum to the national movement to pressure the government to prohibit mining. ...
... and abort a government where “Good Living” represents our development paradigm, this plan has survived. Social and environmental strategies have not been abandoned: the plan we have developed with greater ...
... water, and bilateral agreements are used to minimize the damages to the towns in border territories.
"El Salvador has already demonstrated that organization and social struggle can obtain good results, ...