... “to repeal the mining prohibition and to give multinational corporations control over natural resources would be considered an act of treason by the Salvadoran population.”
The ban’s approval was hailed ...
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This ISDS system, despite existing for over 50 years, has only in the last ten years become a weapon of choice for multinational corporations. Over this time, the number of ISDS cases has exploded with ...
... the proposed El Dorado mine in Cabañas), and the aggressive strategy used by multinational mining corporations that utilize provisions in trade agreements to sue countries that prioritize environmental ...
... Bank to stop enabling a tribunal utilized by multinational corporations to undermine human rights. “Fifty years of ICSID and billions of dollars in corporate awards is enough. It’s time for the World Bank ...
... Bank to stop enabling a tribunal utilized by multinational corporations to undermine human rights. “Fifty years of ICSID and billions of dollars in corporate awards is enough. It’s time for the World Bank ...
Gloria Orellana – CoLatino.
Berta Caceres' murder did not fall on "deaf ears", peasant and indigenous organizations from Honduras and El Salvador have decided, under a banner of solidarity, to unite ...
... We will continue to mobilise so that we are heard by the government and we will never lose our faith. We know, however, that multinational corporations are powerful and their capacity to influence decision ...
... ranks have ensured that El Salvador’s weak but existent administrative mechanisms resist pressure from powerful multinational business to reverse policy.
A number of Salvadoran companies relying on water ...
... because the Congress is still analyzing changes to the law that had been proposed by the Ministries of Economy and Environment.
Meanwhile, all the mining permits that had been granted to multinationals ...
... and to deliver to the World Bank offices a document with their main demand, “a verdict that favors the communities, not multinational enterprises”.
Eduardo Mira from CEICOM (Research Centre on Investment ...
By: Alejandra Martins - BBC Mundo / Translation: Marina Bonetti and Sigrun Pallesen
In an office in Washington, three arbitrators are about to decide on the lawsuit filed by the multinational mining ...
... by vocation, and educator by profession worked tirelessly to protect the hills surrounding San Isidro, after multinational mining company Pacific Rim (now Oceana Gold) started a number of mineral exploration ...
... defending sovereign states against lawsuits lodged by multinational corporations. He is the lawyer for the defence in an obscure but increasingly powerful field of international law – where foreign investors ...
By teleSUR / Heather Gies
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank ...
... strategies without the threat of being bullied by abusive multinational corporations. Cortez and Gálvez are speaking in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto May 11- 15. For details, visit: Stop the Suits Tour, ...
... multinationals against local communities,” says Susan Spronk, associate professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. “If the environmental strategies ...
... Avenue, decisions about El Salvador’s future will be made behind closed doors – almost 2,000 miles away from the Central American country. RELATED ARTICLES Christian Science Monitor:Should multinationals ...
... Disputes, a three-member Tribunal is currently deciding whether the Salvadoran government should pay more than $300 million dollars to a multinational mining company called OceanaGold (formerly Pacific ...
... panelists. El Salvador argues that the multinational has no right to mine on national territory.
El Salvador and Pacific Rim Mining, which recently was acquired by Australian company Oceana Gold, ...
... Disputes of the World Bank, will hear from the government of El Salvador and its opponent, a multinational mining company called OceanaGold (formerly Pacific Rim). The company is suing El Salvador for ...