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21. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... for investments; and discriminatory or arbitrary conduct. Prohibition on uncompensated expropriation: Expropriation is the taking of an investment by a state. The taking can be direct, such as seizing ...; Created on 06 January 2021
22. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in its exploration phase, the company closed its facilities in 2017 due to the approval of the Law prohibiting metallic mining. Following the expectations of a local sector to improve the living conditions ...; Created on 05 January 2021
23. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... its statement, when the Honduran Congress named the park a protected area in 2012, mining and related activities should have been prohibited. But questionable reforms to the law opened the door to the ...; Created on 25 September 2020
24. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... has faced protests by a group of dismissed people. This type of demonstrations, for example, will now be prohibited. Blocks organized from said protests prevented the Guatemalan Nickel Company from entering ...; Created on 22 July 2020
25. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... possible to have El Salvador as the first country that prohibits metal mining on the planet. It was an important achievement. But we still have pending debts at the level of justice in El Salvador and ...; Created on 15 July 2020
26. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the spread of cross border contamination, since the Law Prohibiting Metal Mining in El Salvador (approved on March 2017) is only applicable on the national territory. The researcher and environmentalist ...; Created on 21 April 2020
27. Agriculture, a sustainable economic alternative to mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the closing of artisanal mines, to ensure compensation for the damages caused by the industry and finally to comply with the mandate embodied in the Law on Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved in March ...; Created on 26 December 2019
28. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the struggle, but also as Salvadorans, as members of the communities in Cabañas, we are celebrating the prohibition of mining, a great victory against the mining companies. A victory that has been recognized ...; Created on 26 December 2019
29. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... banned metal mining in all its forms. But the problem of the San Sebastián mine, which for decades has been exploited by artisanal miners, is still unresolved. In fact, according to the mining prohibition law, ...; Created on 26 December 2019
30. 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
31. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... $20 million with a stipulation that would “prohibit the province from using any of the settlement fund to rehabilitate and remediate the environmental damage caused by the mine’s operations or to stabilize ...; Created on 04 October 2019
32. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... metal mining, allows us to be vigilant for those companies that are out there, waiting for a way to come back. The fight has been strong in the department and in the country with the Metallic Mining Prohibition ...; Created on 18 September 2019
33. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); by Marvin Diaz: Gato Encerrado The Law that prohibits mining in El Salvador was approved more than two years ago. Along with the law, key measures that needed to be implemented, such as the technical ...; Created on 18 September 2019
34. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... communities in country. "We ask President Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Law that prohibits Metal Mining. It is of the outmost importance to carry out environmental remediation processes ...; Created on 16 September 2019
35. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... tribunal in 2016, and to the eventual prohibition of large-scale mining in El Salvador in 2017. We are giving back our solidarity to the people of Nueva Vizcaya to their success of mounting a people’s ...; Created on 02 September 2019
36. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); * Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause ...; Created on 03 May 2019
37. The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... through its long battle to have mining prohibited by denouncing and shaming companies that tried to extort obscene amounts of money from the Salvadorian public purse for refusing mining permits. In a ...; Created on 02 July 2018
38. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... 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 ...; 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); ... accompanied by the Catholic Church, environmentalists, academic institutions, broad-based social movements and a variety of other actors. Mining in El Salvador. Video by ACISAM Bills to prohibit ...; Created on 22 June 2018
40. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Salvador, declaring that the "subject is closed" because “there is already a Law that permanently prohibits it”. Organizations that for years have led the antimining struggle in El Salvador such ADES, ...; Created on 31 May 2018

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