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1. 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
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... been increasingly targeted by the government as his administration appears to move toward reintroducing mining to the country. Bukele and his most ardent supporters have been busy setting the stage for ...; Created on 06 April 2023
3. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... precedent-setting lawsuit. The files paint a picture of overbearing corporate influence, political interference, and widespread intimidation and abuse. In Brazil, Toronto-based Belo Sun Mining is moving ...; Created on 07 May 2021
4. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... one day, it was this congressman, Johnny Wright, who convinced the party to ban metallic mining in El Salvador. The book jacket to "The Water Defenders," showing a natural setting with a river.Marco Werman: ...; Created on 22 March 2021
5. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... rendered a new decision in the annulment proceedings to fix the previous error, reaffirming its prior interpretation and setting aside the jurisdictional award in its entirety. In Clorox Spain v. Venezuela, ...; Created on 19 December 2020
6. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... with indigenous communities, a requirement of the International Labour Organization’s convention 169 (ILO 169). But while Guatemala ratified the convention in 1996, industry leaders say regulations setting ...; Created on 23 July 2020
7. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... The Bajo Aguan Region in northern Honduras has historically been the setting for violent territorial disputes. Conflicts in the region can be traced back to the 1960s and 70s, when the Honduran government ...; Created on 24 October 2019
8. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... of extension. While the act mandates environmental impact assessments and compels developers to get consent from Indigenous communities before setting up mines in ancestral lands, activists say companies ...; Created on 04 October 2019
9. The long overdue breakup: Nueva Vizcaya and Oceanagold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... surveillance and harrassment against locals, aiming to discourage them in setting up the people’s barricade,” said Gail Orduña of PCFS. Julie Simongo, a leader of Samahang PangKarapatan ng Katutubong ...; Created on 16 September 2019
10. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... Letter, if the Supreme Court does not annul the sentence, they will be setting harsh precedents for the defense of territory and human rights in Peru. It goes on: “We are disturbed to note a growing tendency ...; Created on 16 September 2018
11. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 2015 setting an all time record of 74 new cases in just one year. Pacific Rim is a Canadian company, also registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven. In its first attempt to bring the ISDS case against ...; Created on 23 June 2017
12. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in the 12.75 km2 area for which it was requesting an exploitation permit. This latter failing – setting aside everything else that is legally, morally and environmentally wrong with Pacific Rim’s presence ...; Created on 03 March 2017
13. El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Salvador, that would also avoid similar arbitrations. Now we are in front of a new setting, in which the Government and the Legislative Assembly have no longer excuses for not passing the legal instruments ...; Created on 20 October 2016
14. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... against multi-national corporations by setting up a hierarchy of water use that would prioritize domestic use and local food production. It would also give impacted communities the right to consent to ...; Created on 18 May 2015
15. The water issue is thorny for the right wing in El Salvador: Interview with Lourdes Palacios: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that these life projects were introduced at the Legislature. - Why the reluctance to ratify the human right water? Recognizing the right to water in the Constitution of the Republic we are setting ...; Created on 23 January 2015
16. Media coverage of the International Month of Action: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a tribunal that hears corporate lawsuits seeking to bypass national courts, laws and regulations setting local standards for health, human rights and ...; Created on 29 September 2014
17. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... in and out, through setting tariffs or taxes. A third measure assures companies like Commerce Group and Pacific Rim access to international tribunals, the most popular of which is the ICSID. These are ...; Created on 15 July 2013
18. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... with indigenous communities, a requirement of the International Labour Organization’s convention 169 (ILO 169). But while Guatemala ratified the convention in 1996, industry leaders say regulations setting ...; Created on 23 July 2020

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