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1. Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement: (FTAs & ISDS); Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement By Janet M Eaton, Phd. April 12th, 2012 There appears to be a growing awareness that NAFTA-style foreign investor privileges and ...; Created on 10 May 2012
2. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... which it was suing at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for denying Pacific Rim, a subsidiary of OceanaGold, an exploitation license in the northern Cabañas ...; Created on 06 April 2023
3. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID. The support of international organizations helped find technical deficiencies in the arguments of mining companies, and also helped ...; Created on 29 June 2021
4. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... with the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The director of the government's legal defense agency, Camilo Gomez, told Argus that the state made a strong attempt ...; Created on 08 June 2021
5. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in Guatemala, nor did it ever obtain a construction permit to build its mine in the first place. Such injustice is precisely what the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) framework enshrined in thousands ...; Created on 07 June 2021
6. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a staunchly pro-business tribunal that adjudicates disputes between governments and foreign investors. Pacific Rim demanded that El Salvador either allow it ...; Created on 23 April 2021
7. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... State Dispute Settlement system (ISDS). Glencore’s operations in Bolivia are carried out through the mining companies Sinchi Wayra and Illapa (the first is a holding company that owns the second). Together ...; Created on 22 April 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The authors also emphasize the absurdity of institutions like the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Much of the tension in The Water Defenders stems from ...; Created on 11 April 2021
9. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... settlement mechanism that may eventually provide services to various ZEDEs, which the Agreement of Coexistence obliges Residents to use for all disputes except those specifically delegated to the Court. ...; Created on 15 February 2021
10. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... new in the mining sector. Since the late 1990s, nearly 50 cases concerning mining concessions have been brought before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), one of ...; Created on 06 January 2021
11. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... from the traditional approach to investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). Our authors did a tremendous job covering and sharing their insights on the most important developments affecting our industry. ...; Created on 19 December 2020
12. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... report exposes the misrepresentations and omissions in KCA’s claims to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), while highlighting the inherent injustice in the supranational ...; Created on 21 October 2020
13. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... mechanism in their treaties”. Under Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), a single foreign investor can claim compensation if it can persuade an international tribunal of investment lawyers that ...; Created on 01 September 2020
14. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Dispute Settlement (ISDS) under the terms of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) with the US. “Riot police attacked peaceful protestors, paving the way for the company’s ...; Created on 24 August 2020
15. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... or even billions, of dollars over policies they claim reduce the value of their foreign investments or their expected profits. Through this “investor-state dispute settlement” system—better known by ...; Created on 23 July 2020
16. Webinar on Extractivism, Human Rights and ISDS: Hard Law vs Soft Law: (Mining and Human Rights); ... El Salvador). With reference to particular examples in Latin America they discussed arbitration suits (Investor State Dispute Settlement) which have been brought by extractive industries in relation to ...; Created on 28 June 2020
17. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... trade deal curtails this “investor-state” dispute settlement (ISDS) somewhat. But it falls far short of the progressive demands for an alternative system that prioritizes human rights and the rights of ...; Created on 03 May 2020
18. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... legal grounds on which to operate its mine in Guatemala, KCA has slapped Guatemala with a US$350 million international arbitration claim at the World Bank´s International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 03 May 2020
19. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... resistance against one of the most polluting and conflictive industries known on the planet. On October 14, 2016, after seven years of litigation at the International Center for the Settlement of Investment ...; Created on 26 December 2019
20. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... hold, yet to be resolved, and failed settlement attempts have marred negotiations. In 2014, Earth Rights International accused Barrick Gold of “coercive settlement provisions,” alleging the company tabled ...; Created on 04 October 2019

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