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1. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case: (ISDS); Public Citizen Global Trade Watch The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...; Created on 30 April 2016
2. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (OceanaGold/Pacific Rim); Public Citizen Pacific Rim Mining Corp. is a Canadian-based firm attempted to establish a gold mine in the River Lempa basin, El Salvador’s largest river. This generated a large debate about the health ...; Created on 30 April 2016
3. Undermining the Land: the defense of community rights and the environment in Mexico: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Project Newsletter The value of gold has soared due to the recent financial crisis making it a very profitable industry. However, the extraction of these resources is a source of conflict among affected ...; Created on 23 April 2016
4. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case: (FTAs & ISDS); CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case 2010 Pacific Rim Mining Corp., a Canadian-based multinational firm, sought to establish a massive gold mine ...; Created on 05 March 2012
5. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... governments’ strategies aimed at undermining community and civil society organizations. In this case, attacks against the staff of DES could be related to the intentions of the current government to reopen ...; Created on 13 January 2023
6. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... in 1994. Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution in Article 422 declares that treaties or international instruments that permit international arbitration are unconstitutional for undermining the nation´s sovereignty. ...; Created on 03 May 2020
7. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... the complaint through a judicial process and, especially the imposition of preventive detention, were given with the purpose of undermining the peaceful protests carried out by the defenders, "thus seeking ...; Created on 20 April 2020
8. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... and have been widely condemned for privileging corporate interests at the expense of local communities and the environment, while bypassing national courts and undermining the decisions of sovereign nations. ...; Created on 26 February 2019
9. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... cases such as the Pacific Rim case in El Salvador are major contributors to undermining democracy in Central America. The same can go for cases in Honduras and Guatemala, where Canadian mining firms have ...; Created on 27 August 2018
10. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); ... undermining the sovereignty of the countries of Latin America."There is currently a strong debate about agreements that give TNCs what is left of our public services. These agreements have been negotiated ...; Created on 10 May 2018
11. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... health. In a nutshell: This corporate power shift hurts workers in all three countries. On the campaign trail, when candidate Trump criticized trade agreements as undermining U.S. independence, he insinuated that ...; Created on 03 March 2017
12. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the lowest regulatory standards, and investor-state dispute systems undermining the sovereignty of nations are just among its alarming features. The growing international people’s struggle against the ...; Created on 26 September 2016
13. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador: (FTAs & ISDS); ... to foreign investors to initiate arbitration, without endorsement of the host State, undermining local sovereignty. The Chamber concluded that CAFTA does not oblige the state to international arbitration, ...; Created on 31 May 2015
14. Press Coverage of Pac Rim Decision: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Common Dreams (also in Other Words): Gold Mining, Undermining Democracy Huffington Post: Mining Company Doubles Up on Law Firms in Quest for Pot of Gold Eyes on Trade Post: El Salvador Looses on ...; Created on 11 June 2012
15. The ICSID Rules the Pacific Rim Case will Continue: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... world to ban gold mining. Instead, this ruling is one more example of international investment rules undermining democracy in the interest of short-term profits for foreign investors.” Spanish Version ...; Created on 03 June 2012
16. Public Citizen Commerce Group Backgrounder: (Background and reports ); Backgrounder CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...; Created on 28 February 2012

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