... disaster, Commerce Group has continued attempting to blackmail the Salvadoran state, making use of international corporate tribunals while not responding to the proven pollution impacts and without respecting ...
... sovereignty and the population’s wellbeing are subjected to the plans of tribunals that are designed to promote corporate interests while at the same time legitimizing the pillaging and destruction of ...
... of domestic court systems are being undermined by unaccountable foreign tribunals, adversely affecting poor communities as well as national development goals.
These types of cases are especially important ...
... to how the company’s legal representation explained themselves before the international arbitration tribunals, but over all, the pressure that it exercises in El Salvador is toward a population that is ...
... wants to move forward. Unless they fix Bush’s deal, the hundreds of Korean firms operating here would get new rights to skirt our court system and laws and use foreign tribunals to demand taxpayer compensation ...
... to their private enforcement. Tribunals have ordered over $200 million in payments to investors under similar terms in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
For the rest of this briefing ...
... of the International Trade Tribunals to subvert sovereignty and democracy.
Las Reglas Globales de Inversión: Una Amenaza para la Democracia y el Medio Ambiente
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... seat at supranational tribunals. The first occasion was the case presented in mid-2009 by the mining company Commerce Group, with allegations that the country had no legal basis for denying it permits ...