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21. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... Latin America and around the world. Indigenous people and affected communities face many reprisals for their resistance, including a mounting number of arbitration suits against their governments from ...; Created on 03 May 2020
22. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Wednesday in Mexico City. Until now, Mexico has had to pay transnational companies more than 242 million dollars for 9 resolutions that went against the country, and it has another 12 pending lawsuits, ...; Created on 24 September 2019
23. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); ... presented the study ¨Extraction Casino: mining Companies gambling with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty through International Arbitration¨. Moore highlighted how these lawsuits allow companies to ...; Created on 18 September 2019
24. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... legal cases like the lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals, Tahoe Resources, and Nevsun that are currently making their way through Canadian courts. We cannot accept another powerless office to feign action ...; Created on 05 May 2019
25. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty through Supranational Arbitration,” exposes how transnational mining companies file multi-million dollar suits against Latin American countries to challenge key ...; Created on 03 May 2019
26. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... number of transnational mining companies that have been launching malicious lawsuits against countries, especially in the Global South, in order to extract sizeable monetary awards. Even though they have ...; Created on 26 February 2019
27. ENDORSERS / SIGNATARIOS: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (CANADA) BC CASA/Cafe Justicia Breaking the Silence (CANADA) Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives(CCPA) Canadian Jesuits International (CANADA) Common ...; Created on 25 February 2019
28. The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... to guarantee the rights of corporations over human well being and human rights. The multi million dollar law suits and similar threats faced by the Salvadoran state and people at the international Centre ...; Created on 02 July 2018
29. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... Research and Communication Team (ERIC), attached to the Jesuits. “But the State continues to ignore the will of the people,” he said. Environmentalist activists said local governments in the area consider ...; Created on 09 May 2018
30. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... have been winning most of the lawsuits in these so-called “investor-state” tribunals, but here again El Salvador prevailed. How? Why? What lessons can be learned, and can nations and activists build ...; Created on 26 June 2017
31. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... groups”. There were also several visits to the global North by Salvadorans. These included the 2013 North American Tour and the 2015 Stop the Suits Tour of Canada. For Jen Moore, this was important “to ...; Created on 23 June 2017
32. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... they face in doing so. Stop the Suits In Canada, we will need to keep up the solidarity with the brave Salvadoran fight to protect water and land from mining, and take courage from their efforts to stand ...; Created on 03 March 2017
33. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 23 years ago. This provision unfairly prioritizes corporations, encouraging them to file lawsuits against governments that implement public health and other ...; Created on 03 March 2017
34. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that allow these “investor-state” lawsuits. The executives of a global mining corporation assumed it would be easy to get their way in Cabañas, a rural region of northern El Salvador. They were wrong. ...; Created on 10 November 2016
35. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to operate, is an abuse of process,” says Manuel Pérez-Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies. “That these suits take place far from any transparent, independent court system demonstrates why we are ...; Created on 14 October 2016
36. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... of legal defeats suffered by the company show that CGC had launched these frivolous law suits only to avoid responsibility for the contamination. In March 2010, a ruling of the Contentious Administrative ...; Created on 02 March 2016
37. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... remains unresolved, even the threat of such lawsuits can make governments reluctant to enact meaningful safeguards for public health and the environment. The legal case has dragged on in the courts for ...; Created on 02 February 2016
38. A dirty gold fever: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... compensatory damages, only because a country decides to follow the democratic will of its people”. For example, withdrawing from a mining project, as in El Salvador. In other countries the lawsuits in ...; Created on 02 February 2016
39. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... defending sovereign states against lawsuits lodged by multinational corporations. He is the lawyer for the defence in an obscure but increasingly powerful field of international law – where foreign investors ...; Created on 11 July 2015
40. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... courts. The number of such corporate lawsuits levelled against countries in the World Bank’s little-known International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has skyrocketed over the ...; Created on 11 July 2015

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