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1. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... concerns, but the Guatemalan state and Bluestone rejected their views and pushed for an injunction to annul the results. Events like these show the historic importance of the Salvadoran mining ban as well ...; Created on 06 April 2023
2. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... of the population, ”González added. Regarding the historical crisis on access to drinking water that the population faces, González recalled the management of the water crisis last January when the National ...; Created on 17 June 2020
3. 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
4. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that nation’s water supply. Who could have imagined an editorial in the New York Times entitled “El Salvador’s Historic Mining Ban” on April 2, 2017?1 The other win occurred six months earlier, in October ...; Created on 26 June 2017
5. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church. In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first ...; Created on 16 April 2017
6. Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... representing a population of 3.8 billion people, vote in favour of a historic resolution to build a binding treaty June 26th, 2014, Geneva – After weeks of negotiation and furious lobbying from Northern ...; Created on 26 June 2014
7. Semana Internacional de Accion para Demandar la Libertad de los 5 Defensores de Santa Marta y ADES: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... el sexto aniversario de la histórica prohibición minera, aprobada por unanimidad por la Asamblea Legislativa en 2017, hay indicios de que el gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele está creando condiciones ...; Created on 09 April 2023
8. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 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 ...; Created on 08 April 2023
9. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining. Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...; Created on 04 April 2023
10. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Common Dreams Jessica Corbett Critics warn that the Salvadoran government is "desperate for revenues" and trying to "demobilize potential grassroots opposition" to reversing a historic nationwide ban ...; Created on 20 January 2023
11. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... it took a position against the Municipal Consultation, a historic event that clearly marked the determination of the people against the installation of metallic mining operations through a consultation ...; Created on 23 September 2022
12. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... from registered voters to request municipal authorities of Asunción Mita to carry out a Municipal Consultation, as per art. 64 of the Municipal Code. Historically, communities closest to mining projects ...; Created on 22 September 2022
13. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...; Created on 23 December 2021
14. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... This historic victory of a country known primarily for its worrisome levels of social violence, overpopulation, migration and environmental deterioration, rendered El Salvador the first nation in the world ...; Created on 14 December 2021
15. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report ...; Created on 29 June 2021
16. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the last four centuries.” “Historically, the Philippines Mining Law of 1905, which was made at the time that the Philippines was still a colony of the US, sets the tone for the way mining operations ...; Created on 12 May 2021
17. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... not only to block Pacific Rim’s mine but to impose a nationwide ban on metals mining. Even as they grieved, they set aside their historical enmity with rightist parties that were linked to their own community’s ...; Created on 23 April 2021
18. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... Company (CMC); and BHP, Anglo American and Glencore, as the owners of Cerrejón. The complaints to the OECD denounce the impacts on the environment and human rights that communities in La Guajira have historically ...; Created on 22 April 2021
19. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... complete.’’ The Haile Gold Mine, a historic site that reopened under OceanaGold, is about six miles from the town of Kershaw in southern Lancaster County. The company is seeking to expand the site because ...; Created on 30 March 2021
20. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... is located at the site of a historic mining operation that closed. Following months of public meetings, DHEC approved a permit in October 2013 to develop the mine and an ore processing plant. Now, ...; Created on 12 February 2021

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