by: P. Cabezas
As the February 2nd presidential elections in El Salvador quickly approach, environmental activists are stepping up pressure on candidates to address issues relating to the country`s precarious ...
... the historic mining ban—despite environmental concerns and the Central American country's ongoing water issues due to the climate emergency and pollution.
"Among El Salvador's greatest heroes of this century ...
... to responsibly analyze the high costs of metallic mining and exercise its right to say “No". Nevertheless, despite El Salvador's environmental vulnerability, the clear threat posed by metal mining and the ...
... been under threat from international mining companies for decades, companies that are after El Salvador's gold. But an unlikely alliance came together to stop them. People on opposite sides of the bitter ...
... to recognize water as a public good and human right. According to El Salvador's legislation, after this session on October 15, the reform will have to be ratified by the next legislature and can therefore ...
... recognized as a human right in El Salvador, and the country is at risk of drought. Although lack of water regulation and climate change are two of the reasons for El Salvador's overall water deficit, in ...
Catholic News Service
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — El Salvador's bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatizing water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to ...
April 4th, 2018
A year since El Salvador's legislature unanimously approved a law prohibiting all metal mining activities in the country, Salvadoran organizations including the National Roundtable ...
... wanted to mine gold and silver in the country's most important watersheds.
The underlying reason for the long and radical resistance to metallic mining is the threat this industry represents to El Salvador' ...
* Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont : Foreign Policy in Focus
U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town ...
El Pais/EFE
San Salvador, Feb 28 (EFE) .- El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudswoman, Raquel Caballero, congratulated today the residents of the town of Cinquera (northwest Cabañas), who last sunday rejected ...
... action is required for its approval. Both the Executive Decree and the Prohibition Law are instruments to prevent the looting of El Salvador's natural assets and guarantee respect for the human rights of ...
... of People who would be affected by the contamination produced by the mining industry.
"They helped their colleagues and our country against extractivist companies who want to take over El Salvador's resources, ...
... and the Council of Canadians, demonstrated support for El Salvador's sovereignty in deciding to stop issuing mining licenses.
In this multi-million dollar David-and-Goliath case, PacRim Cayman (now ...
... put states and governments like ours against the wall, giving priority to the interests of international companies,” said Montes.
After years of legal wrangling, the World Bank court awarded El Salvador' ...
... the government’s decision not to extend the permit was political.
A panel of arbitrators agreed, in June 2012, with El Salvador's argument that Pacific Rim had set up a shell company in the United Stated ...
... the government’s decision not to extend the permit was political.
A panel of arbitrators agreed, in June 2012, with El Salvador's argument that Pacific Rim had set up a shell company in the United Stated ...
... continue, Pacific Rim vs. El Salvador should remind us not to privilege foreign investors to the detriment of the national—or global—good." — Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies
El Salvador' ...
... promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars.
Yanira Cortez, Deputy Attorney for the Environment for El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudsperson's Office and Marcos Gálvez, President ...
... place in an undemocratic, closed door arbitration tribunal and could undermine El Salvador's sovereignty and right to legislate social and environmental policies in the public's interests. For example, a ...