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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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) ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...