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On Wednesday, July 1st, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water of El Salvador urged the local Parliament to resume discussion of the Water Law. The organizations that make ...
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Yolanda Flores, DHUMA: more than 80% of the Peruvian territory has been concessioned to mining activity. Photo: ACAFREMINSan Salvador - Representatives of indigenous communities, social ...
... have water as a fundamental human right", underlined the Cardinal.
In recent days, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that the issue of water will be discussed in the Legislative Assembly and ...
... Harris is traveling to Guatemala this week to discuss solutions to the poverty, violence, and corruption that are among the driving forces of migration. Contributing to these drivers are neoliberal arrangements, ...
... to dispute or uncertainty: cash is really it,’’ said Guild, a Sierra Club lawyer who has been in discussions about the mine expansion with lawyers for OceanaGold.
Haile has proposed to add about $16 ...
... the official site of the Published Internal Rules of the Próspera ZEDE. While the ZEDE law, passed in 2013, has been analyzed elsewhere, here we will discuss the form of government this group of investors ...
... existing case law on the role of arbitral tribunals in gathering evidence and the standard used to prove acts of corruption. Last but not least, we expect to see a number of cases and post discussing ways ...
... who dares to defend the public and common goods of Honduras.”
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... we see with concern that in the more than 100 days since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Legislative Commission for the Environment and Climate Change has not met in order to resume the discussion ...
... El Salvador). With reference to particular examples in Latin America they discussed arbitration suits (Investor State Dispute Settlement) which have been brought by extractive industries in relation to ...
... Batres -president of the Environment Commission- proposed a roadmap. With this guideline, in a period of 33 weeks, the Water Law could be discussed and, by August of this year, people would have a water ...
... 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. ...
... dramatic water crisis in El Salvador, in terms of equal access of quality and quantity, is widely recognized and scientifically documented. However, the lack of progress in the discussion on a General ...
... Palace to resume the debate on the preliminary draft.
The Commission has now started the discussion of the new bill and to date, seven articles have already been approved. The commission’s president, ...
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Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of ACAFREMIN, explained that the purpose of the event is to discuss the criminalization faced by environmental defenders and organizations, to analyze the actions of governments that facilitate mining operations, and ...
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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.
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... Metal Mining» they added.
Finally, they asked the Executive government to play a leading role in the discussion of the General Water Law and to veto any initiative that leads to privatization.
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... that has a central role in designing ISDS rules, third-party funding was one of several key issues under discussion. This comes several months after the International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...
... prohibition approved in March 2016 and to shelve all pending requests related to the mining file, at the same time, the Environment and Climate Change Commission, ECCC, moved to reopen a long overdue discussion ...
... buy it. They consulted with environmental organizations and took courses, then broadcast what they learned, using simple language. They invited people impacted by mines onto the radio to discuss their ...