... cultural and environmental leader who opposed the mine, was tortured and assassinated. While questions remain, many activists believe that pro-mining forces—including local politicians who stood to benefit ...
Anna Backmann and Christian Wimberger: CIR
People taking part in the delegation from the United States, Canada, France, and Germany together with workers of the organization ADES.
El Salvador, November ...
... anymore. The court: an arbitration tribunal of the World Bank. The defendant: El Salvador, a little Central American country maltreated by violence. It is about a rich gold deposit – and on the question, ...
... since the ballots are designed in such a way that the campesinos need only choose “yes” or “no” in response to the question of whether international companies should be allowed to carry out mining projects ...
... on the Salvadoran government get a moratorium on mining, but transnational mining companies are using international investment tribunals to question the legality of denying mining permits while still allowing ...
... extracted” Timothy McCrum, Pacific Rim’s lawyer in the dispute, said this year to BBC.
When BBC Mundo questioned this argument, noting that the company would lose the “tens of millions” it had invested, ...
... experiences in fighting against the same enemy – OceanaGold.
At the end of the talk, a crucial question ensues: What are we going to do to change this reality? The reactions are various: some faces ...
... investment frameworks that supports and abets these corporate crimes.
The big question has been what do we do about it. The dominant approach – supported in particular by political and business elites ...
... to profit trump a country’s right to protect its land and water? That was the question today before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an obscure tribunal housed ...