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1. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); FIDES Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...; Created on 15 June 2021
2. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, Heather McPherson, in the House of Commons on February 25, 2021, at 10:00 A.M. EST. Viewers can watch Ms. McPherson Heather table the petition on “House of Commons ...; Created on 25 February 2021
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... letters to Canadian parliamentarians and ask that they advocate with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada and the Canadian Ambassador to El Salvador for the release of the Santa Marta 5. Here is a ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the Escobal mining license was held on Friday, May 21 of this year in the offices of the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala. The purpose was to identify the entities that will participate as observers and to ...; Created on 26 May 2021
5. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... closest to a significant reform in Canadian law was Bill C-300, which lost in parliament by just 6 votes.” “It’s all because of a powerful industry lobby. How else can you explain the positive second ...; Created on 12 May 2021
6. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to respect any existing commitments…” While such community activities may seem innocuous to an outside observer, the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala and the peaceful resistance movement has decried the ...; Created on 12 May 2021
7. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... both of the population through the popular vote, and from the Cantons that make up the country. Not all is lost however, as a counter-proposal is emerging in the Swiss parliament which, although with ...; Created on 22 April 2021
8. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... political figure was jailed. The situation has gained some international attention, with several European parliamentarians joining the World Organisation Against Torture in calling for Aduviri’s release, ...; Created on 21 January 2021
9. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... enter into force from 2021, after the parliamentary elections. The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, president of the Salvadoran Episcopal Conference, in a video posted on the ...; Created on 30 November 2020
10. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); EuroNews The Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize every year to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. In 2019 the prize was awarded to Ilham ...; Created on 29 September 2020
11. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has been raising awareness about the blatant violation of human rights with the international community. The case of the Guapinol human rights defenders has been taken up by many international parliamentarians ...; Created on 01 September 2020
12. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... members of the European Parliament recently denounced that this preventive detention "does not have a solid legal justification" and constitutes "judicial harassment of defenders in the absence of clear ...; Created on 31 July 2020
13. Demand to resume discussion of the Water Law in El Salvador: (Regional News); Telesur On Wednesday, July 1st, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water of El Salvador urged the local Parliament to resume discussion of the Water Law. The organizations that make ...; Created on 03 July 2020
14. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); ... on the strategy that the Guatemalan State will use for its legal defense. During the citation, conducted by Member of Parliament Leocadio Juracán, Jennifer Moore from the Center for Political Studies, ...; Created on 18 September 2019
15. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... a new Environmental Impact Study (EIA), after having acquired the rights from Goldcorp. "We asked some parliamentarians the same question, but they said they were not aware and/or feigned dementia," Gonzalez ...; Created on 03 May 2019
16. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... protesting the potential privatization of water already paint a grim picture of things to come for social movements in El Salvador. During the month of May, parliamentarians moved to ratify the mining ...; Created on 24 June 2018
17. Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... changes needed to prevent mining-related harms before they occur. The ombudsperson will operate at arms-length from government. S/he will report to Parliament, and will have the power to compel documents ...; Created on 08 February 2018
18. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); ... to water and international treaties on shared water is at stake here. The Central American Integration System, SICA, and the Central American parliament, PARLACEN, should put this issue on the table, so ...; Created on 14 November 2017
19. To prevent water privatization: the next battle for Salvadorean environmentalists: (Water no Gold); ... to reject a recently proposed "Comprehensive Water Law", presented to parliament by a coalition of right-wing parties. The letter condemns renewed attempts to privatize water resources in the country ...; Created on 27 July 2017
20. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... protest was attended by various organizations and associations that support the proposal of the Church. The march left the Simón Bolívar Park, in the center of the Salvadoran capital and arrived at parliament ...; Created on 09 March 2017

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