... these cases is often decided behind closed doors in unaccountable tribunals — like the World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID.
While the Pacific Rim case ...
... Minister of the Environment – said. For a poor country, a conviction would be fatal: not only because of the financial losses, but also because it would open the door to foreign mining also in Arcatao ...
... El Salvador’s ban on mining in their country.
ISDS’s are undemocratic; proceedings take place behind closed doors and out of reach of concerned citizens.
Foreign investor protections in multilateral ...
... place in an undemocratic, closed door arbitration tribunal and could undermine El Salvador's sovereignty and right to legislate social and environmental policies in the public's interests. For example, a ...
... child – murdered Dec. 26, 2009
Dora, a mother of 6 children, and her husband Jose Santos Rodriguez were active members of the Environment Committee of Cabañas, and lived next door to Ramiro Rivera near ...
... Death Projects and PECOSOL.
All organizations marched to the doors of the legislative hall where a plenary session was being held.
Other demands included a ban on metallic mining, reforms to the ...
... Rim Mining corporation, hundreds of thousands of people in El Salvador and around the globe took actions to denounce the close door proceedings and to demand that the company, now owned by Australian/Canadian ...
... Disputes.(Xinhua/Bao Dandan) Hispanic Link: OUTSIDE THE WORLD BANK PROTESTERS DISPUTE MINING AND WATER POLLUTION IN EL SALVADOR WASHINGTON — A case being heard behind the doors of the World Bank may decide ...
... heard behind the doors of the World Bank may decide whether millions living in El Salvador may be forced to find a way to survive without a drinkable water source. In the case, which held its first hearing ...
... decisions about El Salvador’s future will be made behind closed doors – almost 2,000 miles away from the Central American country.
On September 15th, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment ...
... the TPP!
September 15 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
In a tribunal that few know exist, the fate of millions of Salvadoran people is being debated behind doors at the World Bank’s ICSID on September 15, ironically ...
... in 2008 at a regional anti-mining meeting at the Central American University. She also publicly committed to having an open door policy to engage environmentalists in adopting and implementing an environmental ...
... businesspeople and mining companies, it is not farfetched to suspect — and it merits further investigation — the closed door deals that could be taking place in the midst of the electoral campaign to put ...
... expected profits’) through, say, environmental regulation, the door to litigation may be opened.”
El Salvador proves that this threat is real. Undoubtedly poorer nations – whose national budgets are ...
... it is not farfetched to suspect – and it merits further investigation – the closed door deals that could be taking place in the midst of the electoral campaign to put in place the conditions for metal mining ...
... of water in El Salvador. In a speech he delivered in front of the legislative assembly in front of the large crowd who had asembled at the doorsteps after the August 22 march, he committed to “continue ...
... manner.
The importance of issuing a decision is highlighted by members of La Mesa because it would close the door to more lawsuits from foreign corporations such as US based Commerce Group which is suing ...
Public Private Partnerships open the possibility of mining in El Salvador
We are concerned that the PPP law opens the door for approval of mining projects in the northern region of the country. ...
... it is actually an extremely dangerous proposal which could open to the door to mining in the short term. For more analysis around the bill see here.
Unfortunately, the bill that would definitively ban ...
... easy for them to claim the conditions have been met and stack the committee in their favor, essentially opening the door to mining, against the wishes of the communities and the general population. It ...