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21. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and force a debate. In this context, the organizations demand that the will of the Salvadoran people, who in several occasions expressed their rejection of mining activity, must be respected. A survey ...; Created on 07 May 2018
22. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... referenda: Villages and towns voted against mining in their area and the debate eventually reached the national level. International solidarity played an important role, too, with the message that corporations ...; Created on 07 May 2018
23. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... the National roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador states: I. That the real environmental problems of El Salvador are not addressed as a priority in the electoral debate of the candidates ...; Created on 08 February 2018
24. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mineral wealth” – the campaign managed to constantly bring the focus of debate back to the local defence of water and health – both in local and international coverage. For Cabezas “focusing on the defence ...; Created on 23 June 2017
25. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and social sectors) before the ICSID, which is a World Bank court, ruled in favor of the Salvadoran State and rejected the claims of the mining company. All the arguments are there, this is a debate that ...; Created on 15 February 2017
26. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the eventual debate in the Legislative Assembly will likely be sharply divided. The balance of power could come down to which side can generate the most popular shows of support. If that is the case, ...; Created on 13 February 2017
27. Letter Submitted to the Legislature to Demand the Return of the Proposed Law Banning Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of the Special Law to Prohibit Metallic Mining that was presented by the Mesa in 2013. “This debate takes place in the framework of our country having won an international ruling, it opens a new stage ...; Created on 10 February 2017
28. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to an IPS request for comments. The organization also asked the attorney general to guarantee the payment of eight million, by confiscating the assets of the company, and that legislators initiate a debate ...; Created on 05 January 2017
29. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... trigger a constructive public debate on the nature and the quality of cross-border investments. I am sure that such a debate will facilitate cross-border investment flows which are benign and consistent ...; Created on 11 May 2016
30. A Losing Proposition: The Failure of Canadian ISDS Policy at Home and Abroad: (General mining reports ); Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood There has been a debate over Investor-State Dispute Systems (ISDS), a process for resolving settlement disputes between foreign investors and national governments. Many people ...; Created on 30 April 2016
31. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (OceanaGold/Pacific Rim); Public Citizen Pacific Rim Mining Corp. is a Canadian-based firm attempted to establish a gold mine in the River Lempa basin, El Salvador’s largest river. This generated a large debate about the health ...; Created on 30 April 2016
32. Bringing Community perspectives to investor-state arbitration: the Pac Rim case: (ISDS); Orellana et al., 2015 There is an ongoing democratic debate in El Salvador in relation to metals mining and sustainable development. This is a description of the Pacific Rim case and the role of anti-mining ...; Created on 30 April 2016
33. 'Let Us Care for Everyone's Home': The Catholic Church's Role in Keeping Gold Mining Out of El Salva: (Background and reports ); ... the strategic actions taken by the Church to promote its position. Ultimately, the involvement of the Catholic Church served to strengthen the grassroots anti-mining movement, to shape the public debate, ...; Created on 03 March 2016
34. El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and land resources, such as agrobusiness, ranchers, and producers of juices and soft drinks, have largely stayed out of the debate, eliminating a potentially huge obstacle to the movement’s agenda. The ...; Created on 03 January 2016
35. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador: (FTAs & ISDS); ... No. 17, Vol 366 in January 25, 2005. "The alleged failure by the legislature to study and debate the decree is not properly argued" read the ruling. The plaintiffs argued that the official text of the ...; Created on 31 May 2015
36. Time is running out for the Legislative Assembly to ratify food and water as basic human rights in El Salvador: (Mining and Human Rights); ... politics to break quorum and stall debate on a particular issue. As a result of this inaction the Ombudsman for the Defense of Human Rights issued a formal resolution declaring that the legislative assembly ...; Created on 23 April 2015
37. WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in El Salvador have decided to move ahead of the national debate and have already set out their position on mining. At the beginning of March, the municipality of Nueva Trinidad, in Chalatenango, became ...; Created on 18 April 2015
38. The water issue is thorny for the right wing in El Salvador: Interview with Lourdes Palacios: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the stage for the discussion of the General Water Law, which has at its core the debate of private or public management. We (FMLN) are following and support the resolutions of the United Nations that ...; Created on 23 January 2015
39. SECOND MUNICIPALITY DECLARED FREE OF METAL MINING IN EL SALVADOR: (Territories Free of Mining); ... paralyzed since August 2013 as pro-business members of the commission utilize delaying tactics to curb debate. In late October, an attempt to ratify a constitutional reform to recognize the right to ...; Created on 01 December 2014
40. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity. 15 September marked the anniversary ...; Created on 20 October 2014

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