... Agreement (USMCA), the pact has some improvements but remains a handout to large corporations.
This is particularly evident in the USMCA rules related to investor rights. One of the most controversial ...
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This is not the case with the Rio Blanco mine.
But such technicalities are hard to rely on when disregard for the rules is a feature of the international arbitration system. George Kahale III, the ...
... necessity and proportionality, essential in a democratic society ”. In this sense, the rule should be the liberty of the person prosecuted while resolving their criminal responsibility.
The organization ...
... local water supplies — assertions that the company denies. In Guatemala, the Canadian mining company gained control of a mine where operations had been suspended because the country’s supreme court ruled ...
... have skirted the rules—with government support. This has resulted in alleged human rights abuses and long-lasting environmental destruction. “The Mining Act has led to the onslaught of big mining corporations ...
... win millions of dollars thanks to a unilateral system, in which only companies can sue and those who rule on cases are their close allies.
Legalized dispossession
CAFTA-DR, like the thousands of ...
... of Didipio, saying that the Oceanagold operation has been considered illegal.
Last month, July 26, the regional trial court of Nueva Vizcaya ruled against the injunction filed by Oceanagold to stop the ...
... that has a central role in designing ISDS rules, third-party funding was one of several key issues under discussion. This comes several months after the International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...
... response to their request for a dialogue.
July 15, 2015 -- A constitutional court rules against the mine and directs the company to hold community consultations with those who are impacted by the mine. ...