... of Salvadorans
VI. To approve the General Water law as it has been proposed by communities and environmental organizations and to finally end a debate that has been in discussion by legislators for more ...
... led to a groundbreaking parliamentary report in 2005, which in turn led to the government establishing a “Corporate Social Responsibility Roundtables” process in 2006 and a final report in 2007 that called ...
... for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) finally issued its ruling, finding that the company, as Salvadorans have long known, never met El Salvador’s regulatory requirements to obtain a mining permit. ...
... when the dream will end. That's what it felt like for those of us in the struggle against metallic mining, when legislators here finally found the political will to block an industry that threatened to ...
... until the final ruling was released in October 2016.
The Final Showdown
Flash forward seven years, after four community leaders were brutally killed in northern El Salvador, and after countless marches, ...
... long international campaign, the ICSID tribunal finally ruled against the company and ordered it to pay $8 million towards El Salvador’s more than $12million in legal fees. The ruling was hailed as a major ...