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21. A dirty gold fever: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... arbitration tribunals concern individual projects or – as in the action on the German de-nuclearization – the direction of a particular policy like energy policy. But the instance of El Salvador is different. ...; Created on 02 February 2016
22. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... government”. He therefore welcomes it when Salvadorans take a stand against gold mining and foreign tribunals. Just as in Arcatao, in the northern Department of Chalatenango, by the border with Honduras. ...; Created on 03 January 2016
23. Arcatao Community Consultation: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 30 September 2015
24. The lawsuit that could put El Salvador in check: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... system to rule in controversies with foreign investors. However, the mechanism of arbitral tribunals is included in more and more international investment treaties and accords. It is one of the most ...; Created on 30 September 2015
25. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
26. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... access to international arbitration tribunals such as the ICSID. Brazil has never signed onto any such provisions and still boasts significant foreign investment. In 2011, Australia promised not to sign ...; Created on 18 May 2015
27. Stop the Suits Tour: (Stop the Suits: 2015 Canada Tour); ... tribunals such as ICSID. Brazil has never signed onto any such provisions and still boasts significant foreign investment. In 2011, Australia promised not to sign any further agreements that permit access ...; Created on 07 May 2015
28. NEWS RELEASE: El Salvador Facing $300m Claim from Mining Multinational under ‘ISDS’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... company trying to use opaque and unaccountable ISDS tribunals to effectively steal from a sovereign state. Governments should be standing up for the rights of their own people, rather than handing power ...; Created on 17 April 2015
29. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... trade rules and foreign tribunals to garner a profit from a failed mining project, community members who have suffered hardship and irreparable loss due to the presence of the company in their territory ...; Created on 30 December 2014
30. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... struggles against corporate impunity are unnoticed by the world’s media. Over the last eight years, the Transnational Institute with other organizations have been holding Permanent Peoples’ Tribunals across ...; Created on 20 October 2014
31. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the case under a provision of El Salvador's Investment Law. This provision allowed foreign investors to bypass local courts and take their disputes directly to international tribunals. Since then El Salvador ...; Created on 13 January 2014
32. Why a Speaking Tour in Australia: (Water no Gold); ... clauses contained in trade agreements and the international tribunals, such as ICSID, developed to enforce these clauses. To gain public support from El Salvadoran/Australian communities for the ...; Created on 06 November 2013
33. Letter to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and journalists from Radio Victoria environmentalists and claims before international tribunals. In this regard we respectfully demand: That this correspondence with the annexed Special Law to Ban ...; Created on 01 October 2013
34. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... in and out, through setting tariffs or taxes. A third measure assures companies like Commerce Group and Pacific Rim access to international tribunals, the most popular of which is the ICSID. These are ...; Created on 15 July 2013
35. Free Trade Agreement with the European Union must be declared unconstitutional: (Media Releases); ... earnings as an injury that allows foreign firms to sue El Salvador under international trade tribunals bypassing national justice mechanisms. The constitutional challenge to CAFTA-DR cited by members ...; Created on 09 July 2013
36. International delegation confronts mining in El Salvador: (2013 Fact Finding Mission); ... secret and unjust trade tribunals used by mining companies to extort millions of dollars from governments. His presentation provided highlights from his latest report, "Mining for profits in international ...; Created on 08 July 2013
37. Pacific Rim’s announcement of a US $315 million increase in its law suit against El Salvador denounced by members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of a population, to seek to extort damages for lost profits from a government that has simply acceded to the demands of its population. In particular, we are concerned about the utilization of tribunals ...; Created on 03 April 2013
38. Concerned Citizens from Across the U.S. Call on a Milwaukee Company to Act Ethically: (Commerce Group); ... as well as on the escalating number of transnational corporations turning to international arbitration tribunals to resolve disputes over resource rights. In 2007, the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador ...; Created on 21 November 2012
39. Sign Your Organization On to Support the Mesa: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... Rebecca Dreyfus, and Maneul Perez-Rocha, “Mining for Profits in International Tribunals” 2011. Signing organizations: Name Country Contact El Foro Ciudadano de Participación ...; Created on 31 October 2012
40. A Question of Sovereignty: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... tribunals and bypass the domestic justice system. Article 15 of this law establishes that when controversies occur between foreign investors and the government, regarding investment in El Salvador, investors ...; Created on 26 October 2012

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