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Who Decides for El Salvador: The People or Pacific Rim?
The defense of national sovereignty isn’t anti-development
May 3, 2012
San Salvador
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... “who decides” about water regulation has since exploded as a point of contention on the national political agenda. Rallies, marches, and public forums organized by students of the public University of ...
... the priority for the use of water will be commercial above the human rights of people and nature. This proposal creates an autonomous authority where ANEP decides the fate of water in the country; it eliminates ...
... opposed the project, as well as numerous threats and attacks.
Finally the arbitration proceedings showed other states that when a government decides in favour of the interests or positions of its population, ...
... compensatory damages, only because a country decides to follow the democratic will of its people”. For example, withdrawing from a mining project, as in El Salvador.
In other countries the lawsuits in ...
... oriented arbitration tribunal decides on a case in which human rights violations play a role is unacceptable”, lawyer David Morales says. He studies his documents, the blue-white-blue national flag hanging ...
... very existence of the dispute raises questions of state sovereignty in a world of free trade agreements: if a democratically elected government decides to change course on investment law after signing ...