2014 Salvadoran NGOs submit information to the Universal Periodic Review

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In 2014, Salvadoran NGOs submitted independent reports to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review process on El Salvador. Amongst a range of human rights issues, the NGOs highlighted the need for the State to strengthen the protection of the right to water of the population and also highlighted the negative environmental and transborder impacts caused by mining projects and called for the government to enact a ban on metallic mining.

Type of Action / Tipo de Acción:

International and Regional Treaties and Procedures

Extractive Project / Proyecto extractivo:

El Dorado

Region / Región:

Central America

Country / País:

El Salvador

Natural Resource / Recurso natural:

Gold, Silver

Jurisdiction / Jurisdicción:

United Nations System

Category of Key Actors in Legal Action / Categoría de actores claves en la Acción Legal:

Civil Society Organizations, International Organization, State Institutions

Key Legal Actors Involved / Actores jurídicos clave involucrados:

Foundation for the Study of the Application of the Law (FESPAD)

Year Action Started / Año de inicio:

2014

References / Referencias:

FESPAD, ‘Informe conjunto presentado por organizaciones de la sociedad civil salvadoreña para la segunda ronda del Examen Periódico Universal a El Salvador’, JS6, dated March 2014, online: https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/documents/2014-10/js6_upr20_slv_s_main.pdf, accessed 4 May 2022.

FESPAD, ‘Informe conjunto presentado por organizaciones de la sociedad civil salvadoreña para la segunda ronda del Examen Periódico Universal a El Salvador’, JS7, dated March 2014, online: https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/documents/2014-10/js7_upr20_slv_s_main.pdf, accessed 4 May 2022.