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1. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 22 June 2018
2. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Week on Mining in 2006: The mine did not own the land, and the landowners did not want the mine. And while both the authors and the water defenders met that legal decision with relief, if not celebration, ...; Created on 11 April 2021
3. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... In recognition of the communities’ ongoing resistance, earlier this month, over 100 organizations from Guatemala and throughout the Americas sent a letter to La Puya in celebration of their persistent ...; Created on 03 May 2020
4. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... make this initiative a partisan proposal. On March 22, 2012, with the celebration of World Water Day, at the initiative of the then President Mauricio Funes through the Minister of Environment and Natural ...; Created on 20 April 2020
5. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... two weeks before the 25th anniversary celebration in Victoria, ADES invited communities to commemorate the 9th anniversary of Marcelo Rivera’s martyrdom for defending the human right to water against transnational ...; Created on 24 August 2018
6. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a meeting with President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and — confident of our incipient victory — a celebration at the close of the week with the rural communities most threatened by mining. El Salvador had ...; Created on 26 June 2017
7. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); P. Cabezas As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful ...; Created on 07 January 2016
8. Environmentalists call for concrete signals of a sustainability agenda for El Salvador: (Background and reports ); As the celebrations for World Environment Day concluded around the world on June 5th, Salvadoran environmentalist were left relishing a rarely felt sense of victory after a demonstration of more than 8000 ...; Created on 12 June 2014
9. EARTH DAY 2014: El Salvador faces critical environmental challenges: (Media Releases); ... the newly elected government and the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador to honor the celebration of Earth Day worldwide by promoting concrete actions such as the adoption of the General Water law, the ...; Created on 23 April 2014

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