Carlos Hernandez - Contrapunto
Civil society organizations continue to pressure the Legislative Assembly to approve a General Water Law that would benefit the majority of the Salvadoran population.
Representatives ...
... Assembly.
But, a ratification vote by the following legislature, held in October 2014, failed to achieve the qualified majority (56 out of 84 votes) required by legislative procedure on all constitutional ...
Members of the Executive Committee Legislative Assemble of El Salvador Dear Members of the Legislative Assembly: The undersigned members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El ...
... Legislative Assembly in July 2012, members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining visited the Legislative Palace this morning to demand the non-ratification of the Association Agreement with ...
... anniversary of the historic mining prohibition, approved unanimously by the Legislative Assembly in 2017, there are signs that the government of President Nayib Bukele is creating conditions to overturn ...
... for the governance, peace and integration of the peoples of the three countries.
3. That the human right to water is a right enshrined in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution number 64 - 292, ...
... Berta." That chorus of Berta multiplied makes her present, many people know her. She is a woman who was murdered, but could not be silenced.
That is why, in 2019, a decade after the coup d'état, the Assembl ...
THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES
San Salvador, December 22, 2021. ...
... legislation creating the General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, approved by the Legislative Assembly on October 26. The objectives of this new Directorate are to authorize, regulate and ...
... strong and clear public rejection of this industry, there are worrying signs that suggest that the government of Nayib Bukele, with its puppet Legislative Assembly, are considering opening the door to ...
... have water as a fundamental human right", underlined the Cardinal.
In recent days, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that the issue of water will be discussed in the Legislative Assembly and ...
... is arbitrary as it constitutes a reprisal for the defenders' legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of movement, equality before the law, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, ...
... environment defenders who were exercising their right to freedom of assembly to object to the continued operations in the Didipio mine, adding that the police used “unnecessary and disproportionate force”. ...
... 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 ...
Agenzia Fides
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador unanimously approved, with 78 votes in favor and no votes against, the reform of the Constitution of the Republic ...
... its executives have no one to blame but themselves.
On September 3, the community assembly of Carrizalillo set up camp outside the mine, which is principally located on their lands, after their representatives ...
... and peaceful assembly.”
In addition to the eight men detained in 2019, a judge will soon decide whether five others, whose cases were originally dismissed, must also await trial in prison or at home. ...
... water processing plant that should have been out of use or upgraded years ago with funds approved by the legislative Assembly in 2012, 2016, and 2018. The work was never completed.
Las Pavas is the only ...
... and the suspension of rights such as freedom of expression and assembly, will introduce a new penal code to criminalize social protest and jeopardizes civil liberties on June 25.
"In the last 20 years, ...
... rounded up a delegation to demonstrate to investors that it has local support for its Warintza copper project. The trip was highly controversial. The Shuar Arutam People’s Assembly, the representative ...