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El Salvador faces mining company

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
The lawsuit was filed as a result of the Salvadoran government’s moratorium on mining. The ruling may not be known until March 2015. By Fernando Santos Castro Translated from http://voces.org.sv/2014/07/17/minera-presiona-al-estado-salvadoreno/ It all began in 2006 when a law to ban ...

Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, representing a population of 3.8 billion people, vote in favour of a historic resolut...

Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador

| Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
by P. Cabezas Members of the National Roundtable against Mining in El Salvador, La Mesa, announced the presentation of the Pacific Rim-OceanaGold case in this week’s Permanent Peoples' Tribunal held in Geneva, Switzerland. The tribunal, organized as part of the International Week of Actions to ...

Environmentalists call for concrete signals of a sustainability agenda for El Salvador

| Background and reports
As the celebrations for World Environment Day concluded around the world on June 5th, Salvadoran environmentalist were left relishing a rarely felt sense of victory after a demonstration of more than 8000 participants was greeted at the gates of the presidential palace by a high ranking commissio...

Incoming Minister of the Environment confirms continuation of mining moratorium in El Salvador

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
Statement signals the posibility of achieving a mining prohibition during the tenure of incoming president Salvador Sanchez Ceren by P. Cabezas Incoming minister of the environment and natural resources Lina Pohl, announced at an international forum at the Central American University that her ...

Ángel Ibarra: “We will promote environmental sustainability in the country”

| Mining prohibition El Salvador
* Translated from http://nuevaweb.diariocolatino.com/impulsaremos-la-sustentabilidad-ambiental-en-el-pais-angel-ibarra/ Environmental leader Angel Ibarra, with a career spanning over twenty years working with initiatives in political ecology and environmental management, has been named the Vice...

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