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1. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... El Salvador. According to these organizations, the foundation is promoting a political rapprochement aimed at achieving a legislative balance of power that will enable, in the future, the repeal of the ...; Created on 14 November 2017
2. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... convinced that the country is not prepared for the repeal of the Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining. It is clear that the ecological conditions why metallic mining was banned have not been overcome ...; Created on 16 December 2021
3. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...; Created on 14 December 2021
4. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... legislature has made multiple attempts to repeal the 2003 mining ban and recently rejected the Popular Initiative – without legislative debate. This caused massive social upheaval in the last few weeks ...; Created on 17 May 2021
5. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of two thirds of the Council. Only after Natural Residents reaches 10,000 do Residents have the ability to repeal existing rules with a two-thirds vote, and new rules by a simple majority, but only within ...; Created on 15 February 2021
6. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... possibility of repealing the mining ban due to a current balance of power that favors pro-business political parties at the Legislative Assembly and at the Executive level, environmentalist have witnessed ...; Created on 15 July 2020
7. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... Geology and Mines (INHGEOMIN) must cancel the mining licences granted in the protected area of Carlos Escaleras National Park; The repeal of Legislative Decree 252-2013 that modified the core area of ...; Created on 20 April 2020
8. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Likewise, the representatives of the organizations asked upgrading the Law of Prohibition of Metal Mining to constitutional rank, to ensure any subsequent attempt to reform or repeal this legal framework at ...; Created on 26 December 2019
9. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... Faced with official indifference at both local and national levels, protests developed into a region-wide strike in May 2011. One of the central demands was the repeal of Executive Decree 083 – 2007 ...; Created on 28 August 2018
10. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... legislators maintain the prohibition of mining. The closing of the file, however, will not make us lower our guard and we will remain vigilant of any attempt to modify or repeal the law that was approved ...; Created on 31 May 2018
11. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... and the strong rumors about the mining lobby(to repeal the law) complicates the situation but we will see what we can do.” For artisanal miners remediation measures are not coming soon enough, after ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... concern about a political shift in the Legislative Assembly that may be interested in repealing or watering down the Law against Metal Mining, approved in 2017. Bernardo Belloso, from CRIPDES, said that ...; Created on 07 May 2018
13. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... of the risk that the law could be repealed. The archbishop of El Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, a fierce proponent of the prohibition declared during his Sunday March 25th press conference that ...; Created on 06 May 2018
14. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... some proposals contemplate only to simplify paperwork for companies through several means such as repealing articles in legislation, or reforms to the Public-Private Partnership Laws to open the doors ...; Created on 08 February 2018
15. El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Even though the court dismissed the claim under the trade agreement, it gave the okay to pursue the case under Chapter 15 of the Investment Law of El Salvador – a reform of this law repealed the article ...; Created on 26 October 2015
16. Reform to article 15 of the Invesment Law: Assertive legislative action: (FTAs & ISDS); ... regard, it is necessary that the public ask the Legislative Assembly to change the legal framework that benefits transnational corporations at the expense of the State, and to repeal the entire neoliberal ...; Created on 22 July 2013

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