... around the world as an important victory of a broad movement of Salvadoran communities, social and non-governmental organizations, and faith groups in concert with international partners. They kept pressure ...
P. Cabezas
In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may ...
Alfredo Carias: Vanguardia
In the midst of an important victory in El Salvador, an evaluation of the social and environmental conditions in the country contrasts to the achievements obtained with the ...
... by Radio Canada International, Manuel Pérez Rocha explained that although this sentence represents a victory for El Salvador, and for those who defend water and the environment, it does not establish jurisprudence. ...
... days leading up to this historic victory, the university planned a "Week of Action Against Metallic Mining." It included press conferences, TV and radio interviews, public forums, presentations to key decision-makers, ...
... biases of the tribunal.
This loss for OceanaGold set in motion the second victory. OceanaGold responded to its ICSID loss with arrogance and contempt. It did not pay the $8 million in fees that the tribunal ...
... victory for the struggles in El Salvador and internationally.
It came at the end of several years of international campaigning and would pave the way for the outright ban on mining in the country that ...
... Salvador Sánchez Cerén’s desk who has said he will sign it.
Representative Ana Marina Alvarenga, from the left-wing FMLN party, said that the vote was a “popular victory in which our great little country ...
... metallic mining.
The people of El Salvador and their international allies against irresponsible mining are celebrating a historic victory. After a long battle against global mining companies that were ...
... giant OceanaGold/PacRim. Although an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruling in October, 2016 was a major victory for El Salvador, the company has still not paid the court-ordered ...
... face of the threat of PacificRim / OceanaGold, God allowed the justice of man to go together and achieve a victory that belongs to you, because it was here were resistance to metal mining initiated and ...
... Montes, director of Association of Social Economic Development (ADES), a human rights organization, said the victory gives the Salvadoran grassroots a lot of strength in continuing its fight against exploitative ...
Elizabeth Malkin : EcoAmericas
The government of El Salvador and mining opponents won an important victory this month when an arbitration panel threw out an Australian-Canadian mining company’s demand ...
... like a huge victory — symbolic, maybe, but definitely worth a trip to the booking station.
In the new global economy, however, no victory is safe. I thought back to Miguel.
I met Miguel Rivera in 2009. ...
... for El Salvador’s Day of Action against OceanaGold last October 22.
“The victory of the people of El Salvador to protect their water and their environment against a mining giant should be defended vigorously. ...
... rights.
In April 2012 a partial victory was won as the outgoing 2009-2012 legislature voted overwhelmingly to approve the constitutional reform with the support of 81 out the 84 Members of the Legislative ...
As the celebrations for World Environment Day concluded around the world on June 5th, Salvadoran environmentalist were left relishing a rarely felt sense of victory after a demonstration of more than 8000 ...
... a victory for the country. There will always be another Pacific Rim,” she said. “So, what the country needs is a permanent ban on mining, along with stronger local legislation and changes in the investment ...
... been announced by ICSID in 2012, so it is not a victory for the Salvadoran state in its defense of its sovereign right to deny mining permits to the company.
In October 2010, Commerce Group, a mining ...
... suit, commented, “We are celebrating this victory together with the communities in El Salvador that have been suffering the effects of gold mining. Now it’s time for Commerce Group to clean up the mess ...