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1. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); P. Cabezas Barely six weeks have passed since the newly elected, right wing dominated legislature took office, but recent frictions between security personnel of the legislature and university students ...; Created on 24 June 2018
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... and Social Development Association (ADES), who was a key leader in the fight against mining for more than 12 years and had recently been sounding the alarm over Bukele’s attempts to re-open the door to ...; Created on 08 April 2023
3. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... arrests send thousands into despair Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian populist president who swept to power in 2019, has repeatedly blocked attempts to seek justice for civil war victims – the vast majority ...; Created on 04 April 2023
4. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... organizations express the following: 1. Our full support, recognition and solidarity with the Santa Marta Community and ADES who are now facing attempts to smear, discredit and intimidate with dubious ...; Created on 13 January 2023
5. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... Resources attempts to obtain support from locals by investing in infrastructure, scholarships, and promises of employment, development, and economic growth, the company should realize that this approach ...; Created on 22 September 2022
6. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... legislature has made multiple attempts to repeal the 2003 mining ban and recently rejected the Popular Initiative – without legislative debate. This caused massive social upheaval in the last few weeks ...; Created on 17 May 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... is to develop the content of the Treaty so that it really helps meet the goals for which it was driven. Morgantini notes that while attempts to slow down the process have now stopped, there is currently ...; Created on 22 April 2021
9. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the scenes attempts to establish ZEDEs were largely kept secret from the public.The legal framework of the ZEDE caught the attention of libertarian and free-market venture capitalists who sought opportunities ...; Created on 15 February 2021
10. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... has been polluted. In 2018, right wing parties in the Environmental Commission of the Legislative Assembly attempted to fast track a pro-privatization law called the Comprehensive Water Act. These attempts ...; Created on 01 December 2020
11. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... organization. She and her organization have been vocal in resisting the attempts of five large-scale mining companies to enter and operate in their ancestral lands and forests in the Andap Valley Complex ...; Created on 21 April 2020
12. 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
13. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... hold, yet to be resolved, and failed settlement attempts have marred negotiations. In 2014, Earth Rights International accused Barrick Gold of “coercive settlement provisions,” alleging the company tabled ...; Created on 04 October 2019
14. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... as ‘La Puya’, and have resisted repeated eviction attempts, suffering repression by state and private security forces. Despite an ongoing campaign of criminalization and defamation, and a renewed military ...; Created on 26 February 2019
15. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... did an Environmental Impact Report for the operation at the El Dorado gold mine. But after repeated attempts, it failed to receive a permit for exploitation. Residents of the area affected by the mine ...; Created on 27 August 2018
16. 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
17. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... and we asked whether these businesses have the right to take our rivers, and the vast majority said no,” 69-year-old Mayan Indian Cirilo Acabal Osorio told IPS. So far they have managed to stop attempts ...; Created on 09 May 2018
18. 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
19. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to abandon its plans. Four of those threatened municipalities later held referendums to guard against future attempts. The country’s resistance to mining gained international attention after the government ...; Created on 26 June 2017
20. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... El Salvador. During this time the government has spent more than US$13 million in legal costs in a suit where the company attempts to obtain more than US$300 million in compensation for not been allowed ...; Created on 26 September 2016

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