... of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala.
The lawsuit, filed by Shin Imai, York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), is supported by ...
... 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 ...
... lawsuits brought before international arbitration tribunals by private companies, claiming more than US$3 billion in compensation.
Citing force majeure because of the COVID-19 health crisis , Bolivia ...
... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks.
KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...
... a lawsuit brought forwards by Pacific Rim, and have El Salvador set up an example around the work as the first country to completely ban metal mining activities in its territory.
After a 12 twelve ...
... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty Through International Arbitration
All in all, with the USCMA and the TPP, Mexico stands to remain the target of investor-state lawsuits from both the United ...
... Disputes (ICSID), connected to the World Bank (WB), the Salvadoran State beat the lawsuit for 250 million dollars that Canadian based OceanaGold mining(formerly Pacific Rim) claimed for not obtaining the ...
... team expected that their charges would be dismissed. This time however, the judge transferred the case to a military court where the lawsuit was allowed to proceed and bail for the defendants was denied. Although ...
... the spill. “We do not believe that the lawsuit has any merit. We are vigorously defending the case,” she said. Plessis also noted that the company no longer has any operations in the Philippines.
According ...
... Article 1105. Minimum Standard of Treatment; and Article 1110. Expropriation and Compensation”, says the file of the Secretariat of Economy.
The lawsuit
The 26-page document, entered on April 5, alleges ...
By Sara Frabes - AVISPA MIDIA
On December 11, 2018, the American mining company Kappes Cassiday & Associates filed an international arbitration lawsuit for $300 million against the State of Guatemala ...
... legal cases like the lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals, Tahoe Resources, and Nevsun that are currently making their way through Canadian courts.
We cannot accept another powerless office to feign action ...
... number of transnational mining companies that have been launching malicious lawsuits against countries, especially in the Global South, in order to extract sizeable monetary awards. Even though they have ...
... July 2017 in response to the lawsuit against the MEM.
Located a 75-kilometre drive southeast of Guatemala City in San Rafael las Flores, in the Santa Rosa department, the mine, which started up in ...
... the recent court orders with a lawsuit over the violation of the rights of investment, as laid out through the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The firm argues that the Guatemalan state has violated ...
... to the extraction of natural resources."Currently, most Latin American countries are being threatened by multimillion-dollar lawsuits. This explosive amount is the result of the enforcement of certain rules ...
... gold mining projects.
Upon returning to the United States, Gedicks and other members of MCALM met with directors of the Commerce Group and asked them to withdraw their lawsuit. When they refused, MCALM ...
... in El Salvador in support of their work to prevent gold mining in their communities since 2009. That is the year when your Pac Rim Cayman subsidiary filed an unjust investor - state lawsuit with the International ...
... Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a court of the World Bank, which ruled, on 14th of October 2016, in favor of El Salvador in a lawsuit filed by the Canadian mining company Pacific ...
... made history, becoming the first country to ban metal mining outright, after a World Bank tribunal rejected last October a US$250 million lawsuit launched against the government by Canadian-Australian ...