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1. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); Carlos Hernandez - Contrapunto Civil society organizations continue to pressure the Legislative Assembly to approve a General Water Law that would benefit the majority of the Salvadoran population. Representatives ...; Created on 20 April 2020
2. Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By Marina Bonetti Communities and organizations gathered in front of the World Bank in San Salvador to demand a fair verdict on the lawsuit of Pacific Rim vs El Salvador. After days of uninterrupted ...; Created on 27 October 2015
3. Semana Internacional de Accion para Demandar la Libertad de los 5 Defensores de Santa Marta y ADES: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... el 22 de abril (Día de la Tierra) hasta el 30 de abril. Estamos llamando a grupos organizados y organizaciones de la sociedad civil internacional que se sumen en la organización de acciones solidarias ...; Created on 09 April 2023
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a murder during the country’s twelve-year civil war (1980–1992). In the context of Bukele’s increasing openness toward mining, however, some in El Salvador and around the world are questioning the true ...; Created on 06 April 2023
5. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...; Created on 04 April 2023
6. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... were arrested this past January for their alleged involvement in a kidnapping and murder that took place during the country’s civil war 30 years ago. It’s unclear how legitimate the accusations are. ...; Created on 03 April 2023
7. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... are the brave water defenders, including several of those arrested last week." "The five are accused by El Salvador's attorney general of an alleged murder over 30 years ago during the brutal civil war ...; Created on 20 January 2023
8. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); TeleSur Five social leaders were arrested due to a judicial order that links them to an alleged case that occurred during the civil war. On Thursday, Santa Marta's Association for Social Economic Development ...; Created on 19 January 2023
9. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); #SantaMartaNoEstaSola San Salvador. January 11, 2023. During the early hours of Wednesday, January 11, agents of the Attorney General Prosecutor's Office and the National Civil Police of El Salvador ...; Created on 13 January 2023
10. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... Church, civil society organizations, and representatives of the mining company Elevar Resources, who resigned from their positions shortly after the establishment of the commission. However, the observation ...; Created on 21 September 2022
11. 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); ... civil society organizations, to assume a vigilant, critical, and participatory position in the face of this economic activity that, far from bringing true development, brings confrontations, instability ...; Created on 12 June 2022
12. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... and civil society, among others”. In other words, it is the organization in charge of exchanging “mirrors for gold” on behalf of the mining industry. Similarly, it draws out attention the introduction ...; Created on 16 December 2021
13. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to do its human rights and environmental due diligence, those affected would have the statutory right to bring a civil lawsuit against that company in Canadian court. “Canadian businesses that are already ...; Created on 21 May 2021
14. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... But Ivanhoe Mines is not the only Canadian company operating in the Philippines. While Claver said corporate mining ownership has been difficult for civil society to track due to a “global practice of ...; Created on 12 May 2021
15. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... including those set forth in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Therefore, the State must immediately adopt the measures made by the Working Group. The release of the eight human ...; Created on 11 May 2021
16. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Rivera’s death, and its similarity to tactics used by right-wing death squads in El Salvador’s civil war of the 1980s, the water defenders were undeterred. They launched an ambitious campaign seeking ...; Created on 23 April 2021
17. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... have arisen due to reports of contamination of water, air and soil sources around the mining zone. Over the years several studies have been carried out by both national authorities and civil society organizations ...; Created on 22 April 2021
18. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Arts. Soon they had more books than space and secured permission to use a municipal building that had been abandoned since the Civil War, when it was used to store corpses. The Rivera brothers and activists ...; Created on 11 April 2021
19. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... killed in El Salvador’s civil war. It thus took a great deal of courage for the water defenders to reach out to ARENA, as well as to the ultraconservative archbishop of San Salvador, the nation’s capital, ...; Created on 05 April 2021
20. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... civil war from the 1980s came together to ban metal mining in El Salvador. The inside story is the subject of a new book. "The Water Defenders" coauthor Robin Broad joins us now, along with Luis Parada, ...; Created on 22 March 2021

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