... from potential future mining.8
While this was just one of dozens of lawsuits brought by global corporations against governments in this period, it attracted the attention of civil society groups in the ...
... powerful.
Working with international civil society experts, such as the Center for International Environmental Law, the Institute for Policy Studies, Mining Watch, and Oxfam, as well as academics from ...
... legislature made history and passed a ban on all metallic mining nationwide, bringing to fruition a twelve-year-long demand of mining-affected communities and civil society concerned about their precious ...
...
Despite the fact that there is a national consensus among communities, civil society organizations, government institutions, and political parties for a mining prohibition, the Australian-Canadian company ...
... and giving the mining firm an extended period to try to convince the government to allow it to mine.
Fortunately, civil society groups in and out of El Salvador joined with key members of the Salvadoran ...
... on the Legislative Assembly to respond to civil society’s demand.
The struggle for a mining ban is not new to El Salvador, with communities and civil society organizations first raising the issue in 2004. ...
... that bans metal mining in the country.
In 2009 civil society organizations and communities presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly against mining, but up until now there have been no advances in ...
... in the north east of this Central American country.
From the outset the mining project drew strong opposition from the local population, as well as from various representatives of civil society (both ...