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1. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador: (FTAs & ISDS); Yolanda Magaña - Diario el Mundo Most arguments presented by applicants against CAFTA on national sovereignty and social justice were not accepted by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court. ...; Created on 31 May 2015
2. Free Trade Agreement with the European Union must be declared unconstitutional: (Media Releases); The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining submitted a letter to the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of El Salvador to ask that the Free Trade Agreement with US, Central America and the ...; Created on 09 July 2013
3. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... - which involves the suspension of various constitutional rights-, but in this case, it should not apply because those charged have no relationships with gangs. In view of these events, the undersigned ...; Created on 13 January 2023
4. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... in the municipalities of Mataquescuintla, San Juan Tecuaco, and Jalapa set a relevant legal precedent to declare the consultation legitimate, where the Constitutional Court dismissed injunctions presented ...; Created on 23 September 2022
5. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... are also several constitutional resolutions which recognize these as truly democratic processes. According to these rulings, such as the one issued in the department of Jalapa, municipal consultations ...; Created on 21 September 2022
6. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... and sentenced in the United States for drug trafficking. Honduras is a country where there are no constitutional or institutional guarantees for those of us who defend life. That is the product of the ...; Created on 25 December 2021
7. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... which unconstitutionally allocate more than 25 million liters of water per day. With this amount of water ANDA could supply half a million people, ending shortages and injustice in impoverished municipalities ...; Created on 23 December 2021
8. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of acknowledging the depth of the water crisis and seeking lasting solutions, such as the approval of a General Water Law to assure good governance and a constitutional reform that recognizes water as ...; Created on 14 December 2021
9. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... must continue, because people's lives are at stake", said the Cardinal, who underlined: "we cannot leave this issue in chaos". The constitutional ratification of a reform that recognizes access to water ...; Created on 15 June 2021
10. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... November 2017. Colombia's constitutional court suspended operations due to concerns about the impact of diverting a river on the local water supply. Anglo American's latest legal challenge was filed ...; Created on 08 June 2021
11. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... hope that the right to self-determination that we have as Xinka Indigenous people will be respected”. It should be emphasized that government has taken more than three years to comply with the Constitutional ...; Created on 26 May 2021
12. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Derivada [El Tambor] mine, they have not yet received the execution, so the preparatory process cannot begin. This ruling is not yet final because the Constitutional Court must resolve extensions that ...; Created on 22 May 2021
13. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... company’s community work as coercive, in violation of the “free” nature of the consultation and the Constitutional Court suspension order, and a main driver of increased tension and violence. In their ...; Created on 12 May 2021
14. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of Honduran sovereignty or were simply a new form of democratic local government. The constitutional charter of Honduras’ first ZEDE, Próspera, along with its extensive code of rules, was made public at ...; Created on 15 February 2021
15. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... in February 2021. In this pre-electoral context, right-wing support for the constitutional reform can be understood as an attempt to gain approval from a population that widely opposes privatization, not ...; Created on 01 December 2020
16. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... archdiocese's social media thanks the authorities and expresses the satisfaction of the national community and the Church for the approval of the constitutional reform. According to what was approved by ...; Created on 30 November 2020
17. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); "Business Human Right Legal Defense of Guapinol Water Protectors Respond to Disgraceful "Copy-Paste" Appeals Court Ruling with Constitutional Action", 24 de agosto de 2020 The eight defenders have been ...; Created on 24 August 2020
18. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... says the claim is without merit, saying there are no indigenous communities in or around the mine. June 1: The constitutional court upholds the Tambor mine suspension, saying local communities were not ...; Created on 23 July 2020
19. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); Jody García - Nómada In the three days of the state of siege in five municipalities in the north-east of Guatemala, actions have already been filed in the Constitutional Court. The intent of these actions ...; Created on 22 July 2020
20. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... restricting the constitutional rights of the population. Instead, in a presidential statement, Alejandro Giammattei explained that the measures responded to counteract the violence of criminal groups, ...; Created on 20 July 2020

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