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21. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... this measure in place, the residents of these municipalities have been experiencing a restriction in their rights to freedom of action and locomotion, the right to legal detention, assembly and demonstration, ...; Created on 22 July 2020
22. 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
23. Demand to resume discussion of the Water Law in El Salvador: (Regional News); ... up the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water of El Salvador, presented on July 1st a letter to a local parliamentary commission with the purpose of requesting that the Legislative Assembly ...; Created on 03 July 2020
24. Status of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water: (Regional News); ... and Climate Change of the Legislative Assembly. The objective of the letter was to remind the deputies of the Committee that, together with broad sectors of civil society and its organizations, the organizations ...; Created on 03 July 2020
25. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) authorities allowed the supply of water with characteristics not suitable for human consumption. When facing an appeal process before the Legislative Assembly, ...; Created on 17 June 2020
26. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) designated June 5 as World Environment Day. Since the 1970s, the UN has been developing initiatives, calls, and messages with the aim of raising awareness across ...; Created on 06 June 2020
27. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... Ecuador in 2018 for lack of prior consultation. This is a project that should have stopped much earlier. According to a constitutional-level decree issued by Ecuador´s National Constituent Assembly in ...; Created on 03 May 2020
28. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); San Salvador, February 6th, 2020 The different sectors of civil society and the popular organizations hereby represented recognize water as a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes ...; Created on 20 April 2020
29. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... led by the municipal corporation of Tocoa, headed by the mayor Adam Funez; the coordinator of LIBRE and former president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, and Members of the Legislative Assembly belonging ...; Created on 26 December 2019
30. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... to pending environmental remediation and implementing alternative economic activities for artisanal miners, known as "güiriseros". El Salvador made history in March 2017, when the Legislative Assembly ...; Created on 26 December 2019
31. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... exploitation permit at the El Dorado mine, in San Isidro, Cabañas. These events allowed the Legislative Assembly, in March 2017, to unanimously pass the prohibition of metal mining in the national territory. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
32. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... Law on the Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved by the Legislative Assembly in 2017. Also, environmentalists are concerned about attempts to reform the regulations to open the doors to mining companies. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
33. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... 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. Of ...; Created on 26 September 2019
34. ATM Statement re OGPI FTAA renewal: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and conserve the environment. This development even becomes more ironic as the government decided to renew this mining contract during the UN General Assembly which had tackled climate change as its ...; Created on 26 September 2019
35. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the Ministry of Economy, fifteen mining projects have ceased to be active in El Salvador, but since March 2017, date of the approval of the Metallic Mining Prohibition Act by the Legislative Assembly, ...; Created on 18 September 2019
36. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Assembly (and in public debates with this author), have insisted that the water crisis in El Salvador is a myth promoted by the governing party and its sympathizers to attain the urgent approval of a General ...; Created on 27 August 2018
37. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of commodification of our vital liquid. We denounce the arrogant water privatization strategy promoted by the oligarchic groups of the country and pushed through the Legislative Assembly by the right ...; Created on 25 June 2018
38. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... level of public mobilizations not seen in decades. On June 7th, a march organized by environmental organizations to commemorate the World Environment Day drew over 4000 people to the legislative assembly ...; Created on 24 June 2018
39. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Simeón Cañas (UCA) teamed up with lawyers from the university´s Department of Juridical Sciences to develop a new proposal. The bill was presented to the Legislative Assembly on February 6 of 2017 by an ...; Created on 22 June 2018
40. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); PRESS RELEASE San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El ...; Created on 31 May 2018

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