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1. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies
(Mining and Human Rights)
ACAFREMIN Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...
Created on 26 December 2019
2. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... four consecutive governments of the pro-business ARENA party.  During 20 years, Salvadoreans endured the dollarization of local currency and the signing of free trade agreements designed to facilitate ...
Created on 24 June 2018
3. To prevent water privatization: the next battle for Salvadorean environmentalists
(Water no Gold)
P. Cabezas More than one hundred member organizations of the Alliance Against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador mobilized throughout the country to deliver letters to regional Legislative offices ...
Created on 27 July 2017
4. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
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 ...
Created on 08 March 2017
5. IUDOP: 77% of the Salvadorean population asks for metal mining to be prohibited
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Joakin Salazar - Colatino "Total disagreement with metal mining" is the result of the poll conducted by the University Institute of Public Opinion (IUDOP) of the Central American University, Jose Simeon ...
Created on 17 July 2015
6. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... Week of Action in El Salvador: Salvadorean environmental movements will officially announce the International Week of Action (led by ADES, Mesa Frente a la Mineria, ACAFREMIN) April 21: (EL SALVADOR) ...
Created on 08 April 2023
7. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... to review the current cooperation agreements with construction companies, and it  does not make it subordinate to the ASA (Salvadorean Water Authority) established in the law. Considering that the ASA ...
Created on 23 December 2021
8. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... year campaign, metallic mining was banned in El Salvador in March 2017, but the struggle of Salvadorean anti mining activists is far from over. Vidalina Morales, president of the Santa Marta Association ...
Created on 15 July 2020
9. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Ocean Gold, which claimed compensation of 250 million dollars from the Salvadorean government. The case dates back to 2009 when Canadian miner ...
Created on 09 March 2017
10. MUA calls on Australians to support campaign against OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
Since OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim in 2013, members of the the Maritime Union of Australia, along Salvadorean and Filipino residents in Melbourne, have held monthly solidarity actions to demand that ...
Created on 28 September 2016
11. Community of San Jose Las Flores commemorates 11th anniversary of the defeat of a mining company.
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... 14th, the eve of Independence Day in El Salvador, to commemorate the day the company was expelled.     Residents of San Jose Las Flores are perhaps the most seasoned veterans of the Salvadorean anti-mining ...
Created on 27 September 2016
12. Water Forum of El Salvador: Water law secretly negotiated by goverment and private sector
(Mining and Human Rights)
... water management that ensures the true enjoyment of the human right to water for the entire salvadorean population, without discrimination. We reiterate that for more than a decade the Water Forum has ...
Created on 26 September 2016
13. Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... it utilized little known investor protection provisions within the Central America Free Trade Agreement, and later the Salvadorean investment law, to argue that it was entitled to compensation because ...
Created on 17 September 2016
14. Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... it utilized little known investor protection provisions within the Central America Free Trade Agreement, and later the Salvadorean investment law, to argue that it was entitled to compensation because ...
Created on 17 September 2016
15. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.
(Commerce Group)
... and the lack of proper regulation on the part of the Salvadorean government.  It provides an extensive diagnosis of the different issues that need to be addressed in order to bring remediation to the community ...
Created on 02 March 2016
16. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... the 6th anniversary of the gruesome murder of environmental activists who opposed a gold mining project in their community. “We are here to denounce the incompetence of the Salvadorean Government for ...
Created on 07 January 2016
17. Communities Oppose Mining Project
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Navarette concludes.  Currently, the company is waiting for a resolution from International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), after it sued the Salvadorean government for $300 ...
Created on 30 September 2015
18. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador
(FTAs & ISDS)
... Chamber of the Salvadorean Supreme Court, except for two articles, one that banned El Salvador from issuing patents and other that automatically ratified the International Convention for the Protection ...
Created on 31 May 2015
19. Time is running out for the Legislative Assembly to ratify food and water as basic human rights in El Salvador
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Rapporteurs on the Right to Water, Leo Heller, and Special Rapporteur on Food, Hila Lever, has become the latest salvo in a high profile campaign led by Salvadorean environmental organizations seeking ...
Created on 23 April 2015
20. International community responds massively in support of El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... and a permanent ban on mining is achieved in El Salvador. As the world awaits a final decision on OceanaGold, communities in El Salvador are not taking any chances. Just one day before both the Salvadorean ...
Created on 29 September 2014
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