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21. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... sought. In 2009, Pac Rim Cayman LLC brought an “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) case against El Salvador at the World Bank Group’s arbitration venue, ICSID. The company, now a wholly-owned ...; Created on 14 October 2016
22. MUA calls on Australians to support campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to sue El Salvador because a previous government in that country agreed to Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) legislation. “The legal framework that has been created favours investors and violates ...; Created on 28 September 2016
23. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Republished from Both ENDS See chapter on "ISDS, Extractive Industries and the Pacific Rim vs El Salvador case" on page 231, written by Sarah Anderson and Manuel Perez Rocha from the Institute for Policy ...; Created on 11 May 2016
24. Setting the Record Straight: Debunking Ten Common Defenses of Controversial Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (ISDS); Public Citizen In order to counter the increased critiques of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has declared that many of the claims are ...; Created on 30 April 2016
25. Case Studies: Investor-State Attacks on Public Interest Policies: (ISDS); Public Citizen The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system shifts the power between the government and corporations, prioritizing corporate rights. Foreign corporations have used ISDS to attack ...; Created on 30 April 2016
26. Myths and Omissions: Unpacking Obama Administration Defenses of Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (General mining reports ); ... tribunals and demand compensation. There is increased opposition to the expansion of ISDS through the TAFTA, or Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, and the Obama administration recently published a justification ...; Created on 30 April 2016
27. 5 reasons to oppose OceanaGold’s lawsuit against El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that drains countries of their natural resources and gives power to corporations. We call on the Canadian government to reject the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) process, and the trade and investment ...; Created on 11 July 2015
28. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of suits has doubled, with Canada the target in roughly 70 percent of cases. Should the controversial TPP go into effect, U.S. ISDS liability would increase "to an unprecedented degree," the watchdog ...; Created on 18 May 2015
29. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the Association for the Development of El Salvador are calling on Canadians to help solve the water crisis by challenging investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms that have enabled corporations ...; Created on 18 May 2015
30. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... any further agreements that permit access to ISDS (although there are concerns that the Trans Pacific Partnership may change that). Indonesia and South Africa are considering withdrawing from investment ...; Created on 18 May 2015
31. Stop the Suits Tour: (Stop the Suits: 2015 Canada Tour); ... (ISDS) in trade and investment agreements, governments elsewhere are rethinking this model. El Salvador has reformed its national investment law to limit foreign corporations’ access to international arbitration ...; Created on 07 May 2015
32. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... suing the El Salvador government for $301 million for refusing a gold mining permit. To make the original claim in 2009, it shifted its HQ from the Cayman Islands to benefit from the ISDS clause in a US ...; Created on 29 September 2014
33. MUA joins fresh OceanaGold protests: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for its case against El Salvador. It said Australia had also built ISDS clauses into some trade agreements and could be at risk of similar lawsuits in the future. “What if, one day, Australia decided ...; Created on 11 September 2014
34. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the Pac Rim Mining Corporation’s (Pac Rim) most recent attempt to bypass El Salvador’s environmental protection laws using investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). ISDS has a history of allowing corporations ...; Created on 06 August 2014
35. Webinar on Extractivism, Human Rights and ISDS: Hard Law vs Soft Law: (Mining and Human Rights); Aldo Orellana Lopez of TerraJusta joined panellists Carla García Zendejas (Center for International Environmental Law), Jen Moore (Institute for Policy Studies), and Vidalina Morales (Cripdes El Salvador). ...; Created on 28 June 2020

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