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21. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... to demand that the environment commission allow public participation in the water discussions, the same day about 1000 union members of the national water distribution system also marched to assembly. ...; Created on 24 June 2018
22. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018
23. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... without the real participation of the people, the lack of application of the right to free, prior and informed consent under international human rights standards in Nicaragua and the lack of ratification ...; Created on 08 May 2018
24. Conservative candidate Carlos Calleja against mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Translated from Ultima Hora Carlos Calleja, the candidate to the presidency for the Republican Nationalist Alliance, ARENA party, considers himself to be a true environmentalist and has declared he is ...; Created on 14 November 2017
25. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... with other communities, the full participation of the community, unity and the accompaniment of the Catholic Church. "We have been accompanying the community for 31 years. When companies attempted to enter ...; Created on 14 November 2017
26. PRESS RELEASE: To the national and international public opinion: (Media Releases); ... watershed based management and thus it virtually excludes community participation. The proposal eliminates the priority of supplying water the to the population, establishing a single permit for public ...; Created on 21 July 2017
27. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... coalition building, and direct political participation by the people of El Salvador. The arguments placing life and water over gold took root, uniting the entire nation under the banner “No to mining, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
28. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... reviewing their participation, including Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and South Africa. The moral of El Salvador’s double win is that the powerful do not always triumph. As such, El Salvador’s ...; Created on 26 June 2017
29. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining through a local referendum and the Catholic Church of El Salvador had called for massive participation in a public protest to demand legislators to start discussions on the prohibition of mining. ...; Created on 16 April 2017
30. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the implementation of mining projects through a popular consultation. "The prosecutor congratulates the people of the municipality of Cinquera for their active participation" in the popular consultation ...; Created on 08 March 2017
31. How communities in El Salvador are organizing to block mining projects: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Municipal Code as a mechanism for community participation, the consulta popular is an official municipal-level referendum on an issue of local concern that can be invoked by petition if residents are able ...; Created on 05 March 2017
32. Communities Call on Local Representatives to Approve Anti-Mining Regulation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Veterans of the War in El Salvador (ALGES), Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), all of which make up the management committee. This exercise in citizen participation has already ...; Created on 10 February 2017
33. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... role for the anti-mining resistance. “During the Civil War, people were closed off from any opportunity of political participation”, Rodolfo Rivera López explains to us. “Now the tool of the referendum ...; Created on 03 February 2016
34. Municipality of Arcatao calls for a referendum on mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... participation in referendums on the subject of exploration and exploitation of metallic mining in the country is an innovative approach. Currently El Salvador is fighting a trial before the International ...; Created on 30 October 2015
35. Arcatao Community Consultation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... consultation, and CRIPDES (Association for the Development of El Salvador) have emphasized the importance of international observers’ participation in these consultations in order to lend greater legitimacy ...; Created on 30 September 2015
36. Arcatao: the next municipality to hold a referendum on mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Isidro Labrador and Nueva Trinidad – have held successful referenda that saw the participation of more than 62% of the electorate. Out of these voters, 99% expressed their will of banning the mining projects. ...; Created on 29 September 2015
37. Communities in rural El Salvador request a referendum to keep mining projects out of their territories.: (Territories Free of Mining); ... in the municipality for engaging in this interesting process of civic participation to request a municipal referendum on mining” said Felipe Tobar, Mayor of San Jose Las Flores. This is a pilot effort ...; Created on 08 September 2014
38. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in accordance with the rights of access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters. Third, the brief demonstrates that the company does not hold a social license to mine, and ...; Created on 06 August 2014
39. Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... a disastrous public relations campaign that engendered social conflict in the communities surrounding its El Dorado mining project in the northern department of Cabañas. Our participation in this tribunal ...; Created on 25 June 2014
40. Sanches Ceren will prevent mining in the Trifinio región.: (Cerro Blanco); Due the risk of contaminating key bodies of water shared by the three countries Translated from: http://elecciones2014.elsalvador.com/articulo/sanchez-ceren-evitara-mineria-trifinio-976 Vice President ...; Created on 04 March 2014

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