P. Cabezas
Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
... the reflection on the worrying situation that the indigenous peoples of Guatemala and Honduras face, these countries’ governments seek to legitimize the actions of companies by regulating consultation ...
... the Salvadoran Roundtable on Metallic Mining in demanding that:
OceanaGold accept ICSID’s decision and do not seek an annulment;
OceanaGold pay immediately the $8 million USD you owe to El Salvador ...
... understand the communities that live in border areas where the threat is latent. We should organize more, to avoid pollution and seek support with the State," he said.
The social struggle, said Calles, ...
... the company seeks to stay with false arguments and promises in order to win support from the communities in the face of the upcoming 2018 legislative elections that could change the balance of power in ...
... presented by social organizations prioritizes water access as a human right, while the one presented recently by the right wing parties GANA, PCN, ARENA and PDC parties only seeks to market the water, ...
... El Salvador under the investment provisions of the Central America Free Trade Agreement and El Salvador’s investment law, seeking over $300 million to recover its costs and what it calculated as lost profits ...
... basic requirements for seeking a license. But the investment court, which is part of the World Bank Group in Washington, accepted the case anyway.
The tribunal and the lawyers profit from more cases, ...
... a national threat but are also becoming a regional threat.
Community organisations, through the Mesa, have presented technical and scientific information that seeks to promote public consciousness while ...
... Principles on Business and Human Rights, dealing with Access to Remedy, should be used to generate mechanisms to enable access to justice.
This case shows us the urgency of seeking mechanisms to protect ...