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1. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights in Practice, a guide to ILO Convention No. 169: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Convention No. 169 was developed to protect self-identified indigenous people and attempts to address all key aspects of indigenous peoples’ rights. This is a guide to provide governments, indigenous and ...; Created on 23 April 2016
2. Quick study guide: (RESOURCES); This section seeks to gather the latest background studies and resources related anti-mining struggle in El Salvador. Below you will find suggested reads for quick background and reference on different ...; Created on 08 September 2014
3. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... guidelines within the industry itself have failed at preventing harm. Asuncion defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as “a company’s voluntary and self-regulated commitment to stay accountable ...; Created on 12 May 2021
4. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... strategy debates, and breakthroughs of their more than decade-long campaign. The book is an environmentalist playbook, a how-to guide for activists seeking to defeat a power structure that is rigged in ...; Created on 23 April 2021
5. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... territories, even disturbing the dreams of spiritual physicians who can no longer guide their communities as a result. In addition to the systematic violation of the rights of communities and environmental ...; Created on 22 April 2021
6. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... other big wins too. The water defenders of El Salvador and their international partners provide a powerful guidebook, poignantly retold by Broad and Cavanagh, of how the struggles for justice in the United ...; Created on 14 January 2021
7. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... was created in 1961 following guidelines set by the International Development Bank (IDB) along with a $2.7 million loan from the Social Progress Trust Fund of the “Alliance for Progress.” One condition ...; Created on 01 December 2020
8. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... Batres -president of the Environment Commission- proposed a roadmap. With this guideline, in a period of 33 weeks, the Water Law could be discussed and, by August of this year, people would have a water ...; Created on 17 June 2020
9. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... very, very low,” he added. The embassy did not respond directly when asked why it’s so difficult for red-tagged people protesting Canadian operations to seek amnesty. Cimpaye pointed to Canada’s guidelines ...; Created on 04 October 2019
10. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... water resources should be in the hands of the State (central government). In the midst of this increasingly conflictive debate, it is important to reflect on the basic principles that should guide ...; Created on 27 August 2018
11. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... but also some non-governmental organisations – has been to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR). This soft-law approach promotes guidelines and voluntary compacts that corporations can sign up ...; Created on 20 October 2014
12. Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... confirm that the United Nations’ present Business and human rights regime, which relies on voluntary guidelines rather than legal obligations, is woefully inadequate to deal with ongoing corporate violations.” ...; Created on 25 June 2014
13. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... also refutes Pacific Rim/OceanaGold’s claim that it went above and beyond the guidelines required for mining permits back when the government was still issuing them. Instead—and this should be key to the ...; Created on 25 March 2014
14. FMLN candidate Sanchez Ceren commits to not exploit metal mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... presidential candidate of the FMLN. According to Guillermo Lopez, member of UNIDAD, they support because "the FMLN platform adopted guidelines and committed to projects proposed ex-president Antonio Saca(who ...; Created on 24 February 2014
15. Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty: (FTAs & ISDS); ... scale mining that affect us both in the state of Wisconsin and El Salvador. Like the Salvadoran social movement, MCALM is guided by the principle that only organized people can defeat organized money. ...; Created on 08 June 2012

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