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Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine

| Cerro Blanco
YSUCA The Cerro Blanco mine is located just 15 kilometres from the border with El Salvador, in the municipality of Asunción Mita in the department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Since 2006, the project has posed a threat for El Salvador as several border towns may be impacted by the contamination r...

PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador

| Water Crisis El Salvador
San Salvador, February 6th, 2020 The different sectors of civil society and the popular organizations hereby represented recognize water as a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes a fundamental human right of humanity. We also recognize that without sufficient and good quali...

Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly

| Water Crisis El Salvador
Carlos Hernandez - Contrapunto Civil society organizations continue to pressure the Legislative Assembly to approve a General Water Law that would benefit the majority of the Salvadoran population. Representatives of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, accompanied by ...

German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists

| Regional News
* Deutsche Welle COVID-19 threatens the entire population globally, but puts the most vulnerable at greater risk, including prisoners in prisons, who, many times, cannot keep their distance due to the lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation o...

CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders

| Regional News
San José, February 27, 2020.- Today, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) argued before the Honduran Court of Appeals that the deprivation of liberty of seven defenders of the Guapinol rivers and San Pedro must be revoked, as this constitutes an arbitrary measure contrary to inter...

International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defenders

| Regional News
  Tegucigalpa, February 26, 2020 – Preliminary conclusions of a report commissioned by the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) - presented at the Peoples for Water meeting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras - found that the Honduras government is responsible for the systematic viol...

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