Source: Nytimes.com / December 3, 2014 / Op ed by Manuel Pérez-Rocha in the New York Times and International New York Times
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Source: Laht.com / November, 2014 Source: Northernminer.com / October 22, 2014 Source: Thestar.com.my / By Martin Khor / November 24, 2014 Source: Triplecrisis.com / By Kevin Gallagher / November, 2014 Source: Smh.com.au / By Gareth Hutchens/ November 18, 2014 Source: Abc.net.au / By Kyla Tienhaara / November 16, 2014 Source: Counterpunch.org / By Justin Doolittle / November 3, 2014 Source: Theguardian.com / By Melissa Parke / October 29, 2014 Source: Aftinet.org.au / October, 2014 Source: Theconversation.com / By Pat Ranald / October 20, 2014 Source: Economist.com October 11, 2014 Protections for foreign investors are not the horror critics claim, but they could be improved. GOODBYE to the European Union’s environmental protections. Goodbye to Britain’s National Health Service. Goodbye, for that matter, to the ability of voters in sovereign, democratic states to determine the sort of country they would like to live in. These things are all doomed, thanks Source: Economist.com October 11, 2014 Governments are souring on treaties to protect foreign investors IF YOU wanted to convince the public that international trade agreements are a way to let multinational companies get rich at the expense of ordinary people, this is what you would do: give foreign firms a special right to apply to a secretive tribunal of highly paid corporate lawyers for Source: Mobile.bloomberg.com / By Brian Parkin and Rainer Buergin / Octubre 08, 2014 Source: Asil.org / By Caitlin Behles / October 3, 2014 Source: Cbc.ca / September 26, 2014 Source: Alainet.org September, 2014 By Aldo Orellana López and Thomas Mc Donagh* Since the beginning of the new millennium, Latin America has been at the forefront of resistance to the imposition of global and regional free trade policies. The most important victory was the defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas By Thomas Mc Donagh and Manuel Pérez-Rocha* “..I mentioned the great growth in their economic power, political influence and corrupting action. That is the reason for the alarm with which world opinion should react in the face of a reality of this kind. The power of these corporations is so great that it goes beyond all borders..” Source: Washingtonpost.com By Pamela Constable September 15 Protesters gather in front of the World Bank to protest a lawsuit by OceanaGold against El Salvador in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15, 2014. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the Source: Miningwatch.ca Wednesday, September 10, 2014 (Ottawa) Nearly 150,000 people have already signed an online petition directed at the Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold urging it to drop its suit against El Salvador.Secret hearings will begin on the case at a little known investment dispute tribunal housed at the World Bank in Washington, on Monday, September 15th.OceanaGold bought into the suit when it purchased Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining at Source: Canadians.org September 18, 2014 Joint Media Release (Ottawa) On Thursday, a group of Ottawa-based organizations wrote a letter urging the Australian High Commissioner to work with the Australian government and pressure Melbourne-based OceanaGold to drop its $301 million lawsuit against El Salvador. Hearings on the suit began this week at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington. Australian-Canadian Source: Focusweb.org 10 September 2014 Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity Philippine groups express solidarity to people of El Salvador in fight against mining giant Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim Mining Corporation Alyansa Tigil Mina (Alliance against Mining-Philippines), Lilak (Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights), Focus on the Global South and the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network denounce the bullying of El Salvador by corporate mining giant Source: Demotix.com 5 September 2014 Union members hold up protest signs outside the World Bank Office in Martin Place, Sydney as Maritime Union Australia rallies, calling for for OceanaGold Corporation to drop its lawsuit against El Salvador. Watch more by clicking here Source: Canadians.org September 29, 2014 I spent ten days in El Salvador this September representing the Council of Canadians on an international delegation examining metallic mining and how it affects communities. During the trip several events highlighted El Salvador’s struggle to remain a truly democratic and independent nation. On September 15, which marked almost 200 years of independence for El Salvador, people were in Source: Tradejustice.ca (Ottawa and Montreal, September 25, 2014)- Within one day of the opening of the Canada-European Union Summit to be held in Ottawa, over a hundred social organizations on both sides of the Atlantic are launching a joint statement denouncing the outrageous democratic deficit that surrounds the negotiations of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union, and Source: Triplecrisis.com Robin Broad and John Cavanagh On September 15, in a tribunal that few know exists, the fate of millions of people and hundreds of millions of dollars will be debated and decided in the next six months. The tribunal is the World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). It sits in downtown Washington, D.C., behind security guards at the World Source: Ips-dc.org In an obscure World Bank court, a multinational mining firm is suing El Salvador for attempting to protect its citizens from deadly mining pollution. By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, September 10, 2014. ORIGINALLY IN FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS. Salvadorans protest in favor of a ban on all mineral mining. (Photo: laurizza / Flickr) An obscure tribunal housed at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. will Source: Fpif.org By Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde, September 23, 2014 Complete with a giant inflatable fat cat, protesters rally outside the World Bank in support of El Salvador’s right to ban toxic mining along its principal watershed. (Photo: Ron Carver / Institute for Policy Studies) For miners, investors, and artisans, few things are more precious than gold. But for human life itself, nothing is more precious Source: Thinkprogress.org SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 BY ALICE OLLSTEIN CREDIT: ALICE OLLSTEIN WASHINGTON, DC — Does a corporation’s right to profit trump a country’s right to protect its land and water? That was the question today before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an obscure tribunal housed within the World Bank in Washington, DC. At a hearing closed to the press |
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How they threaten communities and the environment, and how we can change them.
We provide this documentation from the ICSID web page for a critical analysis. It includes the list of cases that this tribunal has filed and managed historically and until 2009.
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