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Category: Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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Published: Monday, 21 July 2014 04:24
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 mining in our country was in introduced in our country, this law was introduced by civil society organizations that had had a negative experience with the El Dorado mine in the town of San Isidro, Cabañas; where Canadian mining company Pacific Rim had conducted exploration for gold and silver since 2005.
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Category: Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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Published: Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:23
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 resolution to build a binding treaty
June 26th, 2014, Geneva – After weeks of negotiation and furious lobbying from Northern countries to avoid the creation of an intergovernmental working group to discuss binding human rights obligations for Transnational Corporations, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on a resolution to initiate this process. The tense debate surrounding the resolution that was introduced in September 2013 with by 85 countries mostly from the African group, the Arab group and Alba countries, came to an end today with 20 votes in favour, 14 against and 13 abstentions.
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Category: Pacific Rim/OceanaGold
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Published: Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:53
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 Stop Corporate Impunity, “provides an opportunity to the victims of corporate violations to publicly present their struggle and to demand the justice that they have never achieved. More generally, it aims to provide a truthful and authoritative account of the operations of TNCs and their repercussions on human rights.”
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Published: Thursday, 12 June 2014 18:08
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 commission of government officials who committed to include their demands in the development of the environmental agenda of the newly sworn in government of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren.
Among the officials who stepped out of the palace to greet the demonstrators was long time environmentalist Angel Ibarra who exchanged friendly smiles and handshakes, this time as the newly appointed Vice-Minister of the Environment. Other high profile officials included Lina Pohl, Minister of the Environment, Roberto Lorenzana, Technical Secretary of the president, and Francis Hato Asbun, Secretary for Governability and National Dialogue.
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Category: Mining prohibition El Salvador
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Published: Thursday, 29 May 2014 09:55
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 ministry will continue to support the mining moratorium that has taken place in El Salvador since 2008. The announcement was made at a regional gathering of anti-mining activists in San Salvador organized by the Research Center on Investment and Commerce, a member organization of the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining, La Mesa.
During her speech Pohl acknowledged concerns often raised to oppose metal mining in El Salvador (population density, size of the territory and the precarious ecological balance of the country) to publicly state that she would honor a campaign promise made by president elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren to "maintain the current mining moratorium and to seek solutions to the environmental threats posed by over 48 mining projects located in the border with Honduras and Guatemala” during her term.
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Category: Mining prohibition El Salvador
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Published: Wednesday, 28 May 2014 11:31
* 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 Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, MARN during the upcoming administration of Salvador Sanchez Ceren starting in June 2014 to 2019.
"Until a few days ago I was not considering joining the public service as a member of the cabinet, but I accepted the proposal of President Sanchez Ceren; and this means more commitment, greater challenges and better delivery. I do not doubt that we will make a good working team with Minister Lina Pohl at MARN" he confessed.
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