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.
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.