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1. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of the population, ”González added. Regarding the historical crisis on access to drinking water that the population faces, González recalled the management of the water crisis last January when the National ...; Created on 17 June 2020
2. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); 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 ...; Created on 06 May 2018
3. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that nation’s water supply. Who could have imagined an editorial in the New York Times entitled “El Salvador’s Historic Mining Ban” on April 2, 2017?1 The other win occurred six months earlier, in October ...; Created on 26 June 2017
4. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church. In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first ...; Created on 16 April 2017
5. Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... representing a population of 3.8 billion people, vote in favour of a historic resolution to build a binding treaty June 26th, 2014, Geneva – After weeks of negotiation and furious lobbying from Northern ...; Created on 26 June 2014
6. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... it took a position against the Municipal Consultation, a historic event that clearly marked the determination of the people against the installation of metallic mining operations through a consultation ...; Created on 23 September 2022
7. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... from registered voters to request municipal authorities of Asunción Mita to carry out a Municipal Consultation, as per art. 64 of the Municipal Code. Historically, communities closest to mining projects ...; Created on 22 September 2022
8. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...; Created on 23 December 2021
9. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... This historic victory of a country known primarily for its worrisome levels of social violence, overpopulation, migration and environmental deterioration, rendered El Salvador the first nation in the world ...; Created on 14 December 2021
10. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report ...; Created on 29 June 2021
11. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the last four centuries.” “Historically, the Philippines Mining Law of 1905, which was made at the time that the Philippines was still a colony of the US, sets the tone for the way mining operations ...; Created on 12 May 2021
12. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... not only to block Pacific Rim’s mine but to impose a nationwide ban on metals mining. Even as they grieved, they set aside their historical enmity with rightist parties that were linked to their own community’s ...; Created on 23 April 2021
13. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... Company (CMC); and BHP, Anglo American and Glencore, as the owners of Cerrejón. The complaints to the OECD denounce the impacts on the environment and human rights that communities in La Guajira have historically ...; Created on 22 April 2021
14. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... complete.’’ The Haile Gold Mine, a historic site that reopened under OceanaGold, is about six miles from the town of Kershaw in southern Lancaster County. The company is seeking to expand the site because ...; Created on 30 March 2021
15. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... is located at the site of a historic mining operation that closed. Following months of public meetings, DHEC approved a permit in October 2013 to develop the mine and an ore processing plant. Now, ...; Created on 12 February 2021
16. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, ...; Created on 14 January 2021
17. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... least publicly. Historically, however, the U.S. government has demonstrated its interest in the control of natural and water resources. In fact, the National Aqueduct and Sewer Administration (ANDA) ...; Created on 01 December 2020
18. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Syriacs and Chaldeans to Iraqi Kurdistan and safeguarded more than 800 historic manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th century. These manuscripts were later digitised and exhibited in France and ...; Created on 29 September 2020
19. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... greenwashing. The historic closure of big mines under the late former environment secretary Gina Lopez has been recently announced by current environment secretary and ex-general Roy Cimatu himself as ...; Created on 25 July 2020
20. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Rather, it has been imposed to adapt the productive, commercial and economic objectives of these sectors in a region that has historically struggled to save Lake Izabal from the effects of mining. Indeed, ...; Created on 20 July 2020

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