Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy
Posted By Triplecrisis On June 28, 2012 @ 9:00 am In Guest Bloggers | No Comments
Robin Broad, guest blogger
Today’s ...
... are also responsible for beatings, kidnappings, arbitrary arrests, and killings in local communities. They frequently undermine indigenous self-determination, as national and regional governments give ...
... Goldcorp?” says Shin Imai of JCAP. “The public should be able to scrutinize the government’s actions here, to assess the extent to which it undermined Indigenous communities’ efforts to defend their rights.” ...
... services and pays a determined royalty to the Council.
Any semblance of local democracy in the Próspera charter is undermined by the power of the Committee for the Adoption of Best Practices (CAMP) over ...
... also sustained a defamation campaign against water defenders to divide communities and undermine the work of local organizations, like the San Alonzo Rodríguez Foundation.
What is truly essential ...
... lawsuits from investors as well.
Poor countries in the crosshairs
The problem of corporations using ISDS to undermine legitimate public interest policies and regulations did not begin with the pandemic. ...
... in what Harvey (2005) considers as “accumulation by dispossession”, to the detriment of communities and local ecosystems. In the words of Moran (2015), water is being “undermined” in the sense of making ...
... the Executive branch to halt policies, plans and actions that promote the destruction of the ecosystems, which consequently undermines the capacity to adapt to climate change; therefore should also stop ...
... transnational corporations to pass over national courts and undermine the sovereignty of nations. Courts such as ICSID are not courts of justice, but secret panels of highly paid corporate lawyers whose ...
... pollution of rivers, unjust conditions of workers, illegal arrests, and red-tagging.
The group also furthered that the entire Filipino people’s sovereign rights to their natural resources have been undermined ...
... by a Canadian company abroad.”
This section has been completely erased, leaving advocates to wonder if establishment of the ombudsperson’s office is an attempt by the government to undermine future ...
... the US$300 million-dollar suit that the U.S. mining company Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) is bringing against the Central American country as a shameless attempt to undermine the will of the communities ...
... and their spokespeople, are used precisely to undermine social mobilization in protection of their territory in the face of the extractive whirlwind. Rodrigo Lauracio of DHUMA says, “We believe that the ...
... arbitration undermines democracy in El Salvador and around the world,” says Marcos Orellana of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). “Regardless of the outcome, the arbitration has had ...
... Bank to stop enabling a tribunal utilized by multinational corporations to undermine human rights. “Fifty years of ICSID and billions of dollars in corporate awards is enough. It’s time for the World Bank ...
... Bank to stop enabling a tribunal utilized by multinational corporations to undermine human rights. “Fifty years of ICSID and billions of dollars in corporate awards is enough. It’s time for the World Bank ...
... the company’s image and undermine opposition to a proposed gold mine in Cabañas, the activities of the El Dorado Foundation contradict the country’s decision not to permit metal mining and risk reawakening ...
... is one of the most deforested countries in Latin America and are experiencing the harshest effects of climate change.
Why we oppose this:
This case undermines national sovereignty and directly contradicts ...
... place in an undemocratic, closed door arbitration tribunal and could undermine El Salvador's sovereignty and right to legislate social and environmental policies in the public's interests. For example, a ...
... of the general water law that would undermine the public management while favouring further privatization of the limited water resources.
The upcoming legislative elections in March 2015 can potentially ...