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1. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); Global Voices One of the most essential aspects of COVID-19 prevention is regularly washing your hands; however, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are facing COVID-19 without reliable access to water. ...; Created on 11 September 2020
2. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... public interest, Salvadorans finally won the ban. However, ICSID rulings do not affect the ability of multinational corporations to hang onto their interests and OceanaGold has remained in the country ...; Created on 06 May 2018
3. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... these powerful international tribunals. “Salvadorans, Canadians, and many others elsewhere face a common threat. Let’s continue to call on our governments to withdraw from these treaties and provisions ...; Created on 18 May 2015
4. Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General to Ensure Justice: (Mining and Human Rights); Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General for Justice On April 25th the civil society organizations and communities that make up the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa in Spanish) ...; Created on 26 April 2012
5. Salvadorans in Solidarity with Panama: (Mining and Human Rights); Salvadorans in Solidarity with Panama On Friday, February 10th, as the clashes between the government of Panama and indigenous groups facing hydo-electric dams and mining projects on their territory ...; Created on 20 February 2012
6. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... and sanitation as a right is also pending in the Legislative Assembly. The provision, approved by the previous legislature, requires 56 votes to enter into force (see Fides, 17/10/2020). Hundreds of Salvadorans ...; Created on 15 June 2021
7. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Salvadorans to oppose mining, including more than 3 out of 5 consulted in a 2007 University of Central America poll. The most shocking ordeal faced by the water defenders was Rivera’s gruesome murder. ...; Created on 23 April 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021). Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...; Created on 11 April 2021
9. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to defeat a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a multinational firm that argued the Salvadoran government did not have the right to prohibit mining. How Salvadorans achieved such major wins against enormous odds ...; Created on 05 April 2021
10. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the unsolved murder of one of the environmental activists killed in the lead up to this mining ban. Marcello Rivera was his name. Who was he and how did his story resonate with Salvadorans across the political ...; Created on 22 March 2021
11. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Cinderella “Bravo to the courageous Salvadorans—and their likely and unlikely allies—who prove that victories against overwhelming odds are possible. If they can defeat Big Gold, then surely we can have ...; Created on 14 January 2021
12. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... impact of the Cerro Blanco cross-border mine on water and health of El Salvador’, also determined that contamination from the mine could potentially affect half a million Salvadorans if it reaches the ...; Created on 21 April 2020
13. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the struggle, but also as Salvadorans, as members of the communities in Cabañas, we are celebrating the prohibition of mining, a great victory against the mining companies. A victory that has been recognized ...; Created on 26 December 2019
14. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with a solid legal defence, not only led the company to lose, but cleared the way for Salvadorans to ban all metallic mining country-wide in March 2017,” said report co-author and global economy researcher ...; Created on 03 May 2019
15. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... toward a map of the country’s contaminated rivers. According to government data, 90 percent of the country’s surface water is polluted beyond repair, and almost 1.5 million Salvadorans do not have access ...; Created on 08 May 2018
16. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... presented by the Central American University UCA, published in 2017, indicated that almost 70% of Salvadorans did not agree with mining exploration and exploitation. The Catholic Church joined the public ...; Created on 07 May 2018
17. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... and the company could be favored by upcoming political change, or by possible legal reforms. On March 4th, more than 5 millions of Salvadorans will go to the polls to elect 84 legislators, trusting ...; Created on 08 February 2018
18. Open letter to Oceana Gold: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... in the area where your company was conducting its operations. Over these past seven years, we have actively supported Salvadorans and their government in their fight to protect the fragile Lempa watershed, ...; Created on 30 November 2017
19. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) finally issued its ruling, finding that the company, as Salvadorans have long known, never met El Salvador’s regulatory requirements to obtain a mining permit. ...; Created on 26 June 2017
20. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Cinquera) and ADESCO (Associations for Community Development) joined with CRIPDES (the Association for the Development of El Salvador), a national-level NGO that has helped rural Salvadorans organize ...; Created on 26 June 2017

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