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1. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); 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 ...; Created on 18 May 2015
2. 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
3. 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
4. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Too often, these groups’ close ties to business elites place them on the wrong side of conflicts between local communities and development projects tainted by crime or corruption. Sometimes these tribunals ...; Created on 23 April 2021
5. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... in Investor-State jurisprudence. However, as Pablo Mori Brigante noted, arbitral tribunals currently tend to apply a more flexible standard (preponderance of the evidence) to prove acts of corruption, ...; Created on 19 December 2020
6. 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
7. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... 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 ...; Created on 01 September 2020
8. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... its acronym, ISDS—foreign investors can bypass domestic courts and bring claims directly to supranational arbitration tribunals. A wealthy nation like the United States could conceivably face such claims ...; Created on 23 July 2020
9. 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
10. 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
11. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... in Free Trade Agreements and other investment protection pacts, laws, or contracts. These allow companies to bypass domestic courts and sue governments before private tribunals of highly paid corporate ...; Created on 03 May 2019
12. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... agreements, gives transnational companies binding recourse to a perverse international arbitration system known as Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). ISDS claims are heard in tribunals such as ICSID ...; Created on 26 February 2019
13. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... at the supreme court, if that is not resolved by national institutions, then we are prepared to go to international tribunals” said Freddy Flores a leader of the local Community Development Association. ...; Created on 07 May 2018
14. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... have been winning most of the lawsuits in these so-called “investor-state” tribunals, but here again El Salvador prevailed. How? Why? What lessons can be learned, and can nations and activists build ...; Created on 26 June 2017
15. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... no longer giving transnational corporations recourse to international tribunals.) By 2013, Pacific Rim was in financial trouble and was bought out by Oceana Gold from Australia. By late 2016, after a ...; Created on 23 June 2017
16. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... associated with private tribunals, such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which heard the PacRim Cayman v. El Salvador case. Rachel Small from the Council of Canadians ...; Created on 10 November 2016
17. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to human rights and the environment that occur when corporations bring a suit to tribunals like ICSID,” explained Robin Broad, professor at the American University. "A mining company that calls itself ...; Created on 14 October 2016
18. 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
19. Best Practices Indirect Expropriation: (ISDS); ... in which the State may be considered as amounting to indirect appropriation. However, existing treaties do not provide an explicit definition of the concept, which requires investment tribunals to formulate ...; Created on 30 April 2016
20. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... these cases is often decided behind closed doors in unaccountable tribunals — like the World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID. While the Pacific Rim case ...; Created on 02 February 2016

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