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Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here.
Introduction comes as Honduran President ...
Given the socio-environmental crisis in the country, we demand the Legislature discuss and approve the proposed Special Law to Ban Metallic Mining
In 2006, we presented to the Legislative Assembly a ...
Because mining endangers life, the Salvadoran government must ban metallic mining.
In 2006 the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador introduced a bill to regulate mining activity ...
... funding for Dorado Exploraciones.
Bukele’s scheming to reintroduce mining in El Salvador is part and parcel of his authoritarianism. While targeting anti-mining activists from the country’s mineral-rich ...
... Meanwhile, House Bill 6450, or the Open Pit Mining Ban bill, aims to impose a moratorium on the open pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country.
Both bills were introduced ...
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In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro ...
... the nationwide mining ban proposed by the water defenders and introduced by their partner in the ARENA party sailed through El Salvador’s Congress by a vote of 70 to 0. In the end, the water defenders’ ...
... introduced himself as follows:
“I’m Jeremias & I’m 64 years old. I’m a father and a member of a peasant enterprise of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA). I have been in jail since December ...
... International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines in Canada circulated a petition to introduce new federal legislation that would force Canada to acknowledge its role in mining overseas as well ...
... and the suspension of rights such as freedom of expression and assembly, will introduce a new penal code to criminalize social protest and jeopardizes civil liberties on June 25.
"In the last 20 years, ...
... But these same measures have introduced new risks for human rights defenders who are now particularly vulnerable to armed groups trying to silence them. We urge the governments of Honduras and Colombia ...
... that in the renegotiation of the trade agreement between the European Union and Mexico, ISDS is going to be introduced via the EU’s Investment Court System.
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... zinc, and silver.
The government has also made it especially easy to invest. The 1995 Mining Act, which caters to foreign mining investors, was introduced as the country was grappling with national debt ...
... and implemented a series of delaying tactics to stall the debate for more than three years, until a new law proposal was introduced by a block of unified right wing parties in June 2017.
The new proposal ...
... consent must issue moratoriums or suspensions of licenses and concessions of extractivist projects, to guarantee respect for human rights.
the Salvadoran Government, in particular, besides having introduced ...
... Mining Laws. The legislation that prohibits mining introduced last year acknowledges their existence but provides a two years transitional period to face out their operations.
This requirement is ...
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While the law was introduced with cross-party support a year ago, community organizations are concerned that the results of March 4th legislative elections could put the ban at risk. Power in the legislature ...
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A loosely regulated mining program was introduced in the early 2000s in the northern region of the country where the government had identified 33 mining sites and granted 28 exploration concessions ...
... was introduced in 2006 by members the Water Forum, (Foro de Agua), a coalition of environmental and social organizations that advocate for the implementation of the human right to water in El Salvador. ...
... A bill was first introduced in 2006, and again in 2013, by the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining in El Salvador (a collection of environmental, labor, social justice, and human rights groups) but ...