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1. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
2. Agriculture, a sustainable economic alternative to mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ARPAS The mining industry does not provide enough income to cover the employment, food, and quality of life needs of the communities in the department of Cabañas. Thus, reflecting on alternatives that ...; Created on 26 December 2019
3. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); April 4th, 2018 A year since El Salvador's legislature unanimously approved a law prohibiting all metal mining activities in the country, Salvadoran organizations including the National Roundtable ...; Created on 06 May 2018
4. Metals mining and Sustainable Development in Central America: An Assessment of benefits and costs: (General mining reports ); ... little wealth for the country involved. In addition, it leads to resource depletion and environmental destruction. Mining extraction is an unsustainable economic practice, and it has been shown that countries ...; Created on 23 April 2016
5. Environmentalists call for concrete signals of a sustainability agenda for El Salvador: (Background and reports ); ... national environmental agenda” sustained on the logic of “Buen Vivir”, confirmed the officials during their brief public statements. This reception is different from what demonstrators are used to in ...; Created on 12 June 2014
6. Ángel Ibarra: “We will promote environmental sustainability in the country”: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... twenty departmental and regional consultations on the issue of environmental sustainability. But last week, President Sanchez Ceren invited me to a meeting and proposed that I become the Vice Minister ...; Created on 28 May 2014
7. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 2021, Salvadoran environmental organizations denounced that the government had joined the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, a multilateral NGO that promotes “sustainable” mining, and shortly after, a ...; Created on 08 April 2023
8. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and anti-mining locals affected by the unsustainable and often criminal actions of extractive companies. That year, the Canadian mining company OceanaGold had lost a lawsuit against the Salvadoran state, ...; Created on 06 April 2023
9. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Hydrocarbons and Mines, was created with congressional approval in October 2021. And later that year, the country joined the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, ...; Created on 03 April 2023
10. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... rescuing the Lempa River, and supporting all the local, national and international efforts in favor of the protection and sustainable management of such an important shared resource. 2. That the Trifinio ...; Created on 12 June 2022
11. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... in the country. It does not develop a sustainable watershed management system at the national level, nor it establishes measures aimed at the protection and conservation of the Lempa River. Despite the ...; Created on 23 December 2021
12. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of this institution, "the objectives of the Forum are to improve and promote the contribution of the mining, minerals and metals sector to sustainable development and poverty reduction." Some representatives ...; Created on 16 December 2021
13. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of over 50 countries promoting mining called the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development and based in Ottawa, Canada. Two participants in the Forum, and members of the board ...; Created on 14 December 2021
14. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... an effort to provide incentives for artisanal miners to convert to more sustainable occupations, reparations for families that were victims of mining violence have not been issued, no efforts have been ...; Created on 29 June 2021
15. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... stewardship, our sense of social justice. But corporations are not development organizations, just as, lamentably, our current government is no visionary institution that cares for the long-term sustainability ...; Created on 02 June 2021
16. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... reform and rural development, and genuine sustainable development in order to translate mining into a truly just and green economic recovery," it added. The group cited the large-scale mining operations ...; Created on 27 May 2021
17. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... meeting was chaired by the Vice Minister of Sustainable Development for MEM, Oscar Pérez. In chronological order, Pérez made a presentation concerning the meetings that have been held with the Xinka People ...; Created on 26 May 2021
18. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Silver is not currently extracting minerals at the Escobal mine, it continues to operate in Xinka communities. According to its 2019 Sustainability Report, the company is “engaging with community leaders, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
19. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... is to support mining. Those projects often come with sanitizing, euphemistic titles such as “West Africa Governance and Economic Sustainability in Extractive Areas,” “Enhanced Oversight of the Extractive ...; Created on 07 May 2021
20. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... in the province, some of them within key biodiversity areas and protected areas. “The DENR and the PCSD [Palawan Council for Sustainable Development] must be reminded that under the Strategic Environmental ...; Created on 15 April 2021

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