CNCA
On March 2, 2021, the Federal Court of Canada will hear arguments in a lawsuit that seeks information about the Canadian government’s response to a human rights case concerning a Canadian-owned ...
... assistance to, an alleged drug trafficker who delivered thousands of kilos of cocaine throughout the United States.
In response to the news—which adds to a long list of cases by U.S. prosecutors in ...
AFTINET
A new report by the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute reveals a rush of international arbitration cases against Latin American states by international investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
... Escaleras National Park...
The legal team ensures that pre-trial jail in this case is unnecessary, disproportionate and illegal. What’s more, the new criminal code, which came into force in June 2020 ...
ConexiHon
Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...
... win millions of dollars thanks to a unilateral system, in which only companies can sue and those who rule on cases are their close allies.
Legalized dispossession
CAFTA-DR, like the thousands of ...
Press Release
Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th.
20th September 2018 Cochabamba, Ottawa, Puno, Washington. On Monday September 17th at ...
... spokesperson convicted for his role in protests that took place in 2011 in the southern region of Puno.
The case has been going on for more than seven years but now in the final stretch it is being closely ...
... case represents an eight years debt to the community and authorities must be reminded that people do not forget and that we demand that each of the facts of the three cases be clarified".
He also indicated ...
... who have waited seven years for a World Bank tribunal decision in the controversial case of OceanaGold v. El Salvador. The rally, organized by the Toronto-based Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), ...
... immediately a a favorable resolution in the impending case of Pacific Rim Mining vs El Salvador.
A statement delivered simultaneously to offices in San Salvador, Washington and Melbourne asked the World ...
... immediately a a favorable resolution in the impending case of Pacific Rim Mining vs El Salvador.
A statement delivered simultaneously to offices in San Salvador, Washington and Melbourne asked the World ...
... various policies, in cases ranging from tobacco to mining. This report discusses a selection of the many investor-state attacks on public policies that have occurred globally.
http://www.citizen.org/documents/egregious-investor-state-attacks-case-studies.pdf ...
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...
... demanding compensation for not being able to drill in El Salvador. This article explains the case between Pacific Rim and El Salvador, and how Pacific Rim has used CAFTA to demand hundreds of millions ...
Orellana et al., 2015
There is an ongoing democratic debate in El Salvador in relation to metals mining and sustainable development. This is a description of the Pacific Rim case and the role of anti-mining ...
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), “Submission of Amicus Curiae Brief to Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12,” May 20, 2011, available at: http://www.ciel.org/Publications/PAC_RIM_Amicus_20May11_Eng.pdf ...
... the World Bank. The ICSID tribunal could re-open the case, after having already taken an interim decision
An official US government document, sent by the then American Ambassador in El Salvador Charles ...
Deirdre Fulton - Common Dreams
A Salvadoran delegation is in Canada this week to warn of how investor provisions threaten democracy, public health, and environment
In a case illustrating the dangers ...
Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez, began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...