... panel. Four months ago, El Salvador and OceanaGold were informed that the three panel members had reached a decision, which was being translated to Spanish. Yet, a verdict has yet to be made public. It ...
... vs. El Salvador.
Any day now a verdict could be reached in Washington that will decide over the future of a whole country. The plaintiff: Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company, which does not exist ...
... Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID. The defense wants the tribunal of the World Bank to re-consider the interim verdict that it reached in June 2012.
The document was declassified ...
... reports that the number of known investor-State disputes reached 514 in 2012 and argues that foreign investors are increasingly resorting to investor-State arbitration. Many of these cases target national ...
... and equal access to food and water for the population.
But, negotiations to approve a General Water Law, a Food Sovereignty Law and to constitutionally recognize the right to food and water have reached ...
... long been preached to human rights defenders and affected communities as a way to stave off justice. It was preached to slaves, colonised peoples, women, indigenous people, the Black population in the ...
... in El Salvador have led since the beginning of July, after negotiations to approve the law reached a stalemate.
The deadlock is caused by fundamental ideological differences from the political parties ...
... mind as the anti-mining campaign continues.
Nick Alexandrov lives in Washington, DC. He can be reached at: nicholas.alexandrov@gmail.com.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/14/mining-companies-sue-el-salvador/ ...
... there is no contamination arising from the Cerro Blanco project because it still has not reached its exploitation phase. The release also states that the development of the mine is consistent with Guatemala’s ...
... same tribunal twelve years ago.[12]
After years of popular consultation and scientific analysis the Mesa has reached the conclusion that “If [the] government really cares about guaranteeing sustainability ...
“It wasn’t the Attorney General’s Office that harassed me, it was the DECO”
Zoraya Urbina Editorials, Diario Co Latino
The original in Spanish Santos Rivera, brother to Ramiro, the environmentalist ...
The Modern Gold Rush
By J. Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, November 18, 2011
In Foreign Policy in Focus
In September of this year, the price of gold reached a record high, breaking $1,900 per ounce for ...