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21. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala. The lawsuit, filed by Shin Imai, York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), is supported by ...; Created on 02 March 2021
22. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...; Created on 14 January 2021
23. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... lawsuits brought before international arbitration tribunals by private companies, claiming more than US$3 billion in compensation. Citing force majeure because of the COVID-19 health crisis , Bolivia ...; Created on 01 September 2020
24. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks. KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...; Created on 24 August 2020
25. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... a lawsuit brought forwards by Pacific Rim, and have El Salvador set up an example around the work as the first country to completely ban metal mining activities in its territory. After a 12 twelve ...; Created on 15 July 2020
26. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty Through International Arbitration All in all, with the USCMA and the TPP, Mexico stands to remain the target of investor-state lawsuits from both the United ...; Created on 03 May 2020
27. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Disputes (ICSID), connected to the World Bank (WB), the Salvadoran State beat the lawsuit for 250 million dollars that Canadian based OceanaGold mining(formerly Pacific Rim) claimed for not obtaining the ...; Created on 26 December 2019
28. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... team expected that their charges would be dismissed. This time however, the judge transferred the case to a military court where the lawsuit was allowed to proceed and bail for the defendants was denied. Although ...; Created on 24 October 2019
29. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the spill. “We do not believe that the lawsuit has any merit. We are vigorously defending the case,” she said. Plessis also noted that the company no longer has any operations in the Philippines. According ...; Created on 04 October 2019
30. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Article 1105. Minimum Standard of Treatment; and Article 1110. Expropriation and Compensation”, says the file of the Secretariat of Economy. The lawsuit The 26-page document, entered on April 5, alleges ...; Created on 24 September 2019
31. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); By Sara Frabes - AVISPA MIDIA On December 11, 2018, the American mining company Kappes Cassiday & Associates filed an international arbitration lawsuit for $300 million against the State of Guatemala ...; Created on 18 September 2019
32. 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
33. 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
34. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension: (Regional News); ... July 2017 in response to the lawsuit against the MEM. Located a 75-kilometre drive southeast of Guatemala City in San Rafael las Flores, in the Santa Rosa department, the mine, which started up in ...; Created on 16 September 2018
35. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... the recent court orders with a lawsuit over the violation of the rights of investment, as laid out through the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The firm argues that the Guatemalan state has violated ...; Created on 27 August 2018
36. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); ... to the extraction of natural resources."Currently, most Latin American countries are being threatened by multimillion-dollar lawsuits. This explosive amount is the result of the enforcement of certain rules ...; Created on 10 May 2018
37. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... gold mining projects. Upon returning to the United States, Gedicks and other members of MCALM met with directors of the Commerce Group and asked them to withdraw their lawsuit. When they refused, MCALM ...; Created on 07 May 2018
38. Open letter to Oceana Gold: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... in El Salvador in support of their work to prevent gold mining in their communities since 2009. That is the year when your Pac Rim Cayman subsidiary filed an unjust investor - state lawsuit with the International ...; Created on 30 November 2017
39. ICSID on the bench of the accused: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a court of the World Bank, which ruled, on 14th of October 2016, in favor of El Salvador in a lawsuit filed by the Canadian mining company Pacific ...; Created on 14 November 2017
40. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... made history, becoming the first country to ban metal mining outright, after a World Bank tribunal rejected last October a US$250 million lawsuit launched against the government by Canadian-Australian ...; Created on 26 June 2017

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