Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Investor-state dispute settlement system empowers foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts, challenge government’s public interest policies before extrajudicial ...
... growth, had violated human rights, and posed a threat to the province’s agricultural activity, the environment, and future generations.
His testimony helped break down the myths of economic growth and ...
... “myths” but these counter-claims rely on false and misleading information. This document describes 10 common defenses used by the USTR, and explains the reality for each of these arguments.
http://www.citizen.org/documents/ustr-isds-response.pdf ...
Caritas El Salvador
This article discusses four myths that are told by the mining industry in order to justify their activities in Central America. First, that the current technologies used in mining ...
... of local organizations challenged myths that Pacific Rim has perpetuated in order to promote its gold-mining project to the Salvadoran public. Whereas Pacific Rim has claimed that its project would bring ...