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1. Best Practices Indirect Expropriation: (ISDS); By Suzy H. Nikiema, March 2012 This paper investigates indirect expropriation in international investment law. Indirect expropriation is when the State acts in a way that is detrimental to foreign private ...; Created on 30 April 2016
2. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... assets or property, or indirect, such as depriving an investor of the value of its investment through regulatory action or other governmental measures. Investment treaties typically guarantee that a state ...; Created on 06 January 2021
3. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... and the United States) puts new limitations on investor claims. For example, claims cannot be made for indirect expropriation, which is used by companies to get “compensated” for profits it expected to ...; Created on 03 May 2020
4. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... has a lot to gain “The mining industry is Canada’s flagship industry overseas,” said Catherine Coumans, a research coordinator with MiningWatch Canada. In 2017, the minerals sector directly and indirectly ...; Created on 04 October 2019
5. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Indirect Expropriationwas invoked in over half of the cases. This is especially egregious since it relates to so-called expropriation of anticipated future lost profits, rather than the physical seizure ...; Created on 03 May 2019
6. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... Indirect Perpetration) is particularly worrying. Such wilful misinterpretation of the law seeks to equate social organisations with criminal groups and their spokespeople with instigators of crime. As ...; Created on 16 September 2018
7. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... they honed in on Walter Aduviri as the only guilty party, and now convicted him on the basis of a new interpretation of his role/participation: that of indirect perpetration. To get a sense of the seriousness ...; Created on 28 August 2018
8. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... politicians cannot avoid the issue.” Another result was indirect pressure on the ICSID tribunal itself. Given the profile of the case and the coverage it was receiving, it is not surprising that one of ...; Created on 23 June 2017
9. Mega projects unite social movements from Honduras and El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... pollution and theft of natural resources. "The struggle of Berta and the people of Honduras was hopeful, but she was killed cruelly and we know that the US is indirectly involved, as they have been intensifying ...; Created on 17 September 2016
10. The negative legacy of mining in El Salvador continues after 100 years: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... observed and documented to have adverse effects on natural and social environment directly or indirectly related to mining”: (a) the fall of humans and animals, (b) the presence of sources of ...; Created on 11 November 2015
11. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for “indirect expropriation” of anticipated profits. Even if Pacific Rim loses the case in ICSID, a court that generally favours corporations, the El Salvadorian public will still end up paying the multi-million ...; Created on 20 October 2014
12. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mining. To the families of Ramiro and Dora, the mining company is directly or indirectly responsible, and the departed live on: “They are our consciences,” says Guevara. Other motives for the murders ...; Created on 13 February 2014
13. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... law that significantly reduces the value of a foreign company’s investment, that company can sue the government for “indirect expropriation.” If a government implements more stringent environmental protections, ...; Created on 15 July 2013
14. Free Trade Agreement with the European Union must be declared unconstitutional: (Media Releases); ... Treatment" and "indirect expropriation" which require the state to give foreign firms the same benefits given to Salvadoran firms and defines any governmental action or inaction that harms potential investment ...; Created on 09 July 2013
15. Oxfam Context of Pac Rim: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... “indirect expropriation” in the context of Chapter 10 of CAFTA. On April 30th of 2009, Pacific Rim took its case to the International Center for the Settlement of Investment disputes (ICSID) of the World ...; Created on 29 February 2012
16. Background on Mining: (Background and reports ); ... American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), especially the “indirect expropriation” mechanism, which refers to an action or omission by a government that affects investment. The Absence of a Law that Bans ...; Created on 08 February 2012

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