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How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban

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* Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont : Foreign Policy in Focus U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town at a time. Amid a natural gas boom, could U.S. activists ever dream of a national ban o...

Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador

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Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : Ethics and International Affairs   Recently there have been two giant wins for democracy, human rights, and the environment in an unlikely spot: the small, embattled nation of El Salvador. The most recent win was in March 2017, when the national legislatu...

El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom

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Thomas Mc Donagh and Aldo Orellana López : The Democracy Center On 29th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country in the world to do so. The historic vote came just six months after a World Bank t...

PRESS RELEASE: OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines

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PRESS RELEASE June 23, 2017 (Ottawa/Washington, D.C./Melbourne) Reviewing OceanaGold reports issued in the lead up to its June 23 annual general shareholders meeting in Toronto, it is difficult to tell that the company was at the centre of international controversy over two of its mine projects ...

El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining

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Sandra Cuffe: Mongabay  Legislators in El Salvador made history Wednesday, passing a bill to ban all metallic mining activities in the country. The results of the much-anticipated vote were unanimous: 69 in favor, none against, and no abstentions. Fifteen of the country’s 84 lawmakers did ...

El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining

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Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church. In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first nation in the world to ban metal mining. On Wednesday, March 29, the Legislative Assembly vo...

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