... suspend the mining licence due to lack of prior consultation. Operations at the mine are suspended.
May 2018 -- KCA submits its notice of intent to file arbitration under the Free Trade Agreement between ...
... critical of the consultation standards laid out in the ruling and what he considered the disregard for the principle of free, prior and informed consent.
“What we interpret is that they maintain that ...
... of irregularities in the acquisition of the land titles by the company, the communities began to petition the authorities, requesting in particular that their right to prior consultation be respected. ...
... of La Puya, and determined that the mining company and the municipality violated the rights of the communities to a prior consultation, and ordered the mining firm to suspend the construction of infrastructure. ...
... General Water Law, a bill that recognizes water as a human right and a common good that must be managed publicly with a focus on sustainability, priority and affordability for domestic use, as well as ...
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 ...
... told IPS while moving about in the kitchen set up in an improvised camp, which IPS visited on Apr. 29.
The lack of prior consultations with the communities where such projects are installed is a recurrent ...
... miners a priority in order to secure a sustainable future for the community of San Sebastian.
A further switch to the right in the political scenario should also be a cause of concern for artisanal ...
... the mining prohibition may soon change as the main priorities of the antimining movement. After nine years in power, the FMLN, the party that has mildly supported a progressive environmental agenda, has ...
... the National roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador states:
I. That the real environmental problems of El Salvador are not addressed as a priority in the electoral debate of the candidates ...