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21. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of the General water Law. The proposal contains of three elements: The articles approved by the Committee on the Environment and Climate Change between 2013 and 2015; A modified and widely agreed-upon ...; Created on 20 April 2020
22. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Palace to resume the debate on the preliminary draft. The Commission has now started the discussion of the new bill and to date, seven articles have already been approved. The commission’s president, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
23. Agriculture, a sustainable economic alternative to mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the closing of artisanal mines, to ensure compensation for the damages caused by the industry and finally to comply with the mandate embodied in the Law on Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved in March ...; Created on 26 December 2019
24. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... Law on the Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved by the Legislative Assembly in 2017. Also, environmentalists are concerned about attempts to reform the regulations to open the doors to mining companies. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
25. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... site and said police escorted the three trucks to ensure they weren’t stopped at the government checkpoints. The governor approved the fuel delivery, Bowerman said. (The regional police refused to comment, ...; Created on 04 October 2019
26. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); by Marvin Diaz: Gato Encerrado The Law that prohibits mining in El Salvador was approved more than two years ago. Along with the law, key measures that needed to be implemented, such as the technical ...; Created on 18 September 2019
27. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and ensure the appropriate technical closures of the mines," said La Mesa in a statement. They indicated that even though the Law was approved in March 2017, the provisions in the legislation have not ...; Created on 16 September 2019
28. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... have to present a new EIA, as the one originally presented by Entre Mares/Goldcorp suffered from many technical deficiencies and was approved "in an illegal manner, because it was first rejected twice by ...; Created on 03 May 2019
29. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... the law to be approved. The dialogue was ended by the right wing parties and the ANEP in June 2017 with the presentation of the "Integral Water Law". We make an urgent call to social organizations, churches, ...; Created on 25 June 2018
30. Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatizing water: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... participation in water management. The bishops' conference preferred that public oversight of water resources be maintained. "If a law is approved that grants a private entity the right to decide over ...; Created on 24 June 2018
31. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... prohibition approved in March 2016 and to shelve all pending requests related to the mining file, at the same time, the Environment and Climate Change Commission, ECCC, moved to reopen a long overdue discussion ...; Created on 24 June 2018
32. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 22 June 2018
33. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... legislators maintain the prohibition of mining. The closing of the file, however, will not make us lower our guard and we will remain vigilant of any attempt to modify or repeal the law that was approved ...; Created on 31 May 2018
34. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... the consultation processes to be non-binding, and as a result do not take them into account. Before the Salvadoran legislature approved, in March 2017, a historic law prohibiting metal mining in all ...; Created on 09 May 2018
35. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... still don’t have a law that regulates access to water. As the church, we cannot stay silent.” “We are not going to rest until we have our General Water Bill approved,” the archbishop says. “It’s not ...; Created on 08 May 2018
36. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); P. Cabezas A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned. The ban approved with ...; Created on 07 May 2018
37. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... which could jeopardize their victory. A year has passed since the Law against Metallic Mining was approved. The prohibition is a victory resulting from almost 13 years of struggle led by organizations ...; Created on 07 May 2018
38. 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
39. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... authorities to try to have an exploitation license approved. At the local level in Cabañas, the company led a disastrous community relations campaign that engendered deadly conflict in the communities ...; Created on 08 February 2018
40. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... for further privatization. The current legislature, which ends its term on May 1st, approved the Law of Prohibition of metallic mining in El Salvador last March, with 70 votes, after communities threatened ...; Created on 08 February 2018

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