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1. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret tribunal is on the brink of issuing a ruling any day that that could force the Central American country ...; Created on 18 May 2015
2. World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) - A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and ...; Created on 17 September 2014
3. World Bank Tribunal Weighs Final Arguments in El Salvador Mining Dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) - A multilateral arbitration panel here began final hearings Monday in a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and ...; Created on 17 September 2014
4. Inside a secret hearing at a foreign tribunal, El Salvador awaits a verdict: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); $301 million and the health of El Salvador’s rivers and people are riding on World Bank arbitration next week. Alex Blair, OXFAM America Next week in Washington DC, right along Pennsylvania Avenue, ...; Created on 17 September 2014
5. Tens of Thousands Call On OceanaGold to Drop its Suit Against El Salvador as Secret Hearings Begin at World Bank Tribunal: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the case at a little known investment dispute tribunal housed at the World Bank in Washington, on Monday, September 15th. OceanaGold bought into the suit when it purchased Vancouver-based Pacific Rim ...; Created on 10 September 2014
6. Mining for Profits in International Tribunals - Updated: (Background and reports ); ... – the right to sue governments in international arbitration tribunals granted under a complex web of free trade agreements (FTAs) and thousands of bilateral investment treaties (BITs). This report explains ...; Created on 12 July 2013
7. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... or lacking in evidence. Violent eviction of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya, May 23, 2014. Photo: James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org A World Bank investment tribunal will rule on the KCA lawsuit against ...; Created on 07 June 2021
8. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and have their suits heard before private, investor-friendly international tribunals. The Trudeau government has channeled more than $100 million in assistance for international projects whose real purpose ...; Created on 07 May 2021
9. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a staunchly pro-business tribunal that adjudicates disputes between governments and foreign investors. Pacific Rim demanded that El Salvador either allow it ...; Created on 23 April 2021
10. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that the CEO and Secretary of the PAC, Humberto N. Macias, is also Deputy General Counsel for Honduras Próspera LLC. The PZ Court, the PAC, or any arbitration tribunal is also empowered to reform the Próspera ...; Created on 15 February 2021
11. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...; Created on 14 January 2021
12. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... an international arbitration against the host state (in other words, the foreign state where the investor's investment is located) before an international tribunal. This international arbitration can be ...; Created on 06 January 2021
13. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... still making the headlines. In Colombia, a national arbitration tribunal in the Ruta del Sol case ruled in favor of the government, and declared an infrastructure contract null and void, concluding that ...; Created on 19 December 2020
14. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them. First, they resort to repression. Then, if that fails, they sue governments in international tribunals — which ...; Created on 21 October 2020
15. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... mechanism in their treaties”. Under Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), a single foreign investor can claim compensation if it can persuade an international tribunal of investment lawyers that ...; Created on 01 September 2020
16. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... arbitration against the government of Guatemala is very worrisome. If the tribunal rules against Guatemala, this could have a terrible domino effect that puts communities at risk, in which extractive companies ...; Created on 24 August 2020
17. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... over a policy to freeze utility rates in local currency to protect consumers from runaway inflation. An international tribunal ordered the beleaguered government to pay the U.S. corporation $133 million. ...; Created on 23 July 2020
18. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... aspects of the original NAFTA was that it allowed private corporations to sue governments in international tribunals, demanding compensation for alleged violations of a wide range of investor “rights.” ...; Created on 03 May 2020
19. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... however, has decided to appeal the decision. In August 2019, a second group of seven activists presented themselves to the tribunals to face similar charges and, like those cleared in March, the legal ...; Created on 24 October 2019
20. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... tribunal in 2016, and to the eventual prohibition of large-scale mining in El Salvador in 2017. We are giving back our solidarity to the people of Nueva Vizcaya to their success of mounting a people’s ...; Created on 02 September 2019

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