... our efforts to attain responsible water legislation capable of assuring equitable, efficient and sustainable management of water resources in El Salvador: Right based focus: Water is a source of life. ...
... for the exercising of all other rights."
El Salvador's legislature is starting debate on a national water law. The legislation is proving controversial because some lawmakers favor increased private-sector ...
... on water legislation, but hinting to privatization.
Since 2006, environmental organizations of El Salvador have pressured lawmakers to approve laws that recognize water as a human right and as a common ...
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 ...
... tribunal of bankers.
To La Mesa and the groups that agitated for El Salvador’s 2017 legislation to ban mining we congratulate you. We will continue to give our solidarity and support to you until OceanaGold ...
... guarantees recognized, up to now, in their legislation and jurisprudence (internal law)
have not duly complied with their international obligations related to prior consultation and free and informed ...
... Mining Laws. The legislation that prohibits mining introduced last year acknowledges their existence but provides a two years transitional period to face out their operations.
This requirement is ...
... of the future right-wing alliance in the Legislative Assembly or specific proposals on environmental legislation regarding the prohibition of metal mining are unknown. Still, the organizations hope that ...
... of seismic activity.
They presented draft legislation to the government to prohibit mining. Other powerful institutions joined in, including the Catholic Church, which countsabout 60 percent of the country’s ...
... some proposals contemplate only to simplify paperwork for companies through several means such as repealing articles in legislation, or reforms to the Public-Private Partnership Laws to open the doors ...
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We demand from our governments full respect in the exercise of territorial defense in the framework of national legislation and international agreements ratified by our States.
We demand an objective ...
... UN and a proposal to amend the constitution to enshrine the rights of food and water as basic human rights.
In March 2012, the executive branch of the government introduced its own Water Legislation ...
... When the protest arrived at the legislative assembly, on March 9, they were greeted by a multi-party commission that committed to start discussions immediately and have legislation ready before the Easter holidays. ...
Gloria Silvio Orellana: Colatino
"It is clear that OceanaGold does not want to pay, so we have to intervene; the National Police (PNC) and the Prosecutor's Office (FGR) must intervene their assets," said ...
... visit by the MOVIAC (Movement of Victims of Climate Change and Corporations)in the afternoon, following the mayors of Chalatenango, to present another piece of legislation to ban mining, adds to the pressure ...
... Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, said in a press conference Sunday.
The religious leader of the Catholic-majority country stressed that there must be legislation to outlaw mining in order to ensure ...
... mining companies from continuing to contaminate the nation’s environment and to end their judicial impunity, by having legislation to support eradication(of the mining industry).
“As local authorities ...
... to sue El Salvador because a previous government in that country agreed to Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) legislation. “The legal framework that has been created favours investors and violates ...
... and earlier studies indicate that most Salvadorans do not see the environmental threat from mining as imagined. Nonetheless, the suspension is precarious – based only on executive action and not legislation ...
... government has failed in passing legislation that prohibits mining, over the last years communities have organized to fight multinational mining companies through a more institutionalized mechanisms: public ...