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1. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); Lexology Hogan Lovells A commitment of capital in a foreign state, particularly with long-term profit horizons, can be a risky undertaking. When a host state harms a foreign company's investment, the ...; Created on 06 January 2021
2. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... have managed conflict by providing financial aid for CSR initiatives within developing nations.” She said that this is part of a trend to shift blame onto the weak governance systems in developing nations ...; Created on 12 May 2021
3. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... it was obtained and awarded through corrupt practices. This case is peculiar, however, because it deviates from the current trend in regard to both gathering and assessing evidence of corruption. Regarding ...; Created on 19 December 2020
4. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... the disturbing trend of mining companies using ISDS to sue governments when their investments face opposition from local communities. Arbitration suits like this are made possible by International Investment ...; Created on 24 August 2020
5. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... fighting to protect community health and water from negative mining impacts — are facing new threats. These trends are laid out in a global solidarity statement released June 2 and signed by over 300 ...; Created on 23 July 2020
6. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity ...; Created on 19 July 2020
7. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... struggle and in solidarity with them in their upcoming battles. Meanwhile, other mining companies have continued to threaten governments with suits over unwanted projects. This is a trend the Institute ...; Created on 03 May 2020
8. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... where a significant resistance against extractive projects is taking place, have been punished with a partial State of Siege while extractive projects operate illegally. An alarming sign of this trend ...; Created on 26 December 2019
9. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... this is part of a process of a broader trend of criminalization and stigmatization that communities face when they reject extractive projects that have not been consulted with indigenous peoples.” The ...; Created on 16 September 2018
10. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... and other regions. Dragging the spokespersons of these struggles through the courts is the cornerstone of a much broader trend to criminalize social protest. This includes not only new laws and legal ...; Created on 28 August 2018
11. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and it has the lowest level of available freshwater per capita in Central America. According to the Global Water Partnership, the country also suffers from a clear trend toward water stress, a situation ...; Created on 26 June 2017
12. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... they pose to the environment and human well-being. The trend is spreading across the country. Cinquera, in the neighboring Department of Cabañas, is holding a referendum on February 26th to become the ...; Created on 13 February 2017
13. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... by legal experts, researchers and economists, think tanks and NGOs. The book covers a wide range of topics – from current trends in investor-state arbitration to the wider ramifications of investment treaties ...; Created on 11 May 2016
14. A Losing Proposition: The Failure of Canadian ISDS Policy at Home and Abroad: (General mining reports ); ... conducts a quantitative analysis to identify trends in the use of ISDS by Canadian investors, explores ISDS through various case studies and discussed policy implications for Canada. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2015/08/Losing_Proposition.pdf ...; Created on 30 April 2016
15. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... 35 percent were brought by oil, gas, and mining firms and nearly 50 percent of all 169 suits were against Latin American governments. The trend with NAFTA suits is similar—over the last decade, the number ...; Created on 18 May 2015
16. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... As of 2013, there were 169 investor-state suits being heard at ICSID, up from only three in 2000, and nearly 50 percent of all 169 suits were against Latin American countries. For Canada, the trend is ...; Created on 18 May 2015
17. Stop the Suits Tour: (Stop the Suits: 2015 Canada Tour); ... ICSID, up from only 3 in 2000. About 35% were brought by oil, gas, and mining firms and nearly 50% of all 169 suits were against Latin American governments. The trend with NAFTA suits is similar. Over ...; Created on 07 May 2015
18. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to legal accountability for corporate crimes is a long struggle, but the vote in the UNHRC marks an important milestone because it aims to set a trend in international law that establishes the primacy ...; Created on 20 October 2014
19. Australian company sues El Salvador for right to mine: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). ICSID is part of a trend in international institutions and trade agreements over recent years that give rights to international ...; Created on 11 September 2014
20. Central American anti-mining activists form coalition in Nicaragua: (2013 North America Tour); ... mining met today in Managua to form a coalition to unify efforts against such projects. "It's a need to articulate our struggles, because mining provides a worrying trend for Central America, in some ...; Created on 08 December 2013

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