Jen Moore
On November 27, 2019, the life and struggle of Mariano Abarca were honored with the presentation of the first award for environmental defense in Chiapas to be presented in his name. His brother, ...
... Not for long, Climax Arimco Mining Corporation was awarded the first financial and technical assistance agreement (FTAA) under the Mining Act of 1995, which allows 100-percent ownership of a foreign company. ...
... Elmer Mangalinao, renowned environmental lawyer Antonio La Vina, Nueva Vizcaya governor Carlos Padilla, Kalikasan national coordinator Leon Dulce, and UN Champions of the Earth 2018 awardee and indigenous ...
... Canadian firms have already been awarded US$4.4 billion in compensation through this system.
Among the several important findings we highlight in the report, one concerning issue relates to the growing ...
... 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 ...
... Letelier-Moffitt international Human Rights Award in Washington D.C.. Members of the organization will be present to accept the award which is presented annually in memorium of fallen human rights defenders ...
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On October 4th, 2018, Puno-based organization Human Rights and Environment – DHUMA will receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt international Human Rights Award in Washington ...
... avaricious mining company but we are aware the damages awarded to them did not account for their costs in this case. We believe its treasonous for any country to hand over their sovereignty to a Washington ...
... operating the Didipio mine since 2013. As we saw for ourselves in research trips there in 2013 and 2017, it has not met its reforestation requirements.
True, OceanaGold brags that they won awards ...
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The October 2016 ICSID panel award unanimously stated that the Pac Rim Cayman suit did not have any legal merit. Indeed, the Pac Rim Cayman vs El Salvador suit demonstrates the abuse of “investor-state” ...
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It is an activism that has brought both death threats and triumphs to Morales, who arrived this week in Los Angeles to receive the Environmental Justice award from the organisation CARECEN in representation ...
... reported that the mining company Oceana Gold had paid the $ 8 million dollars awarded by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment disputes, ICSID.
“After the Legislative Assembly approved ...
... organizations and the Roundtable”.
Perez Rocha’s organisation, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), had given their prestigious Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award to the El Salvador Roundtable against ...
... with the basic requirements for a mining permit. The panel awarded El Salvador $8 million to partially cover its legal fees. OceanaGold has still not paid the amount ordered by the court and continued ...
... the arbitration award or they will submit a plea of nullity. El Salvador won the lawsuit against Pacific Rim / OceanaGold, which had been filed in 2009 by the company to request the State the payment of ...
PRESS RELEASE / DEC. 06, 2016
On December 14, it will be 2 months since an ICSID Tribunal issued the arbitration award condemning Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold to pay the Salvadoran State $8 million US ...
... costs, interest should be added to the amount originally established from the date of issuance of the award until it was paid.
Foley Hoag's lawyers believe the court forgot to decide on that request from ...
... to Washington to receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, a prize that brought international recognition to this struggle. Then when we made our first trip to Cabañas ...
... announce the content of the "arbitration award" issued by the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) after seven years of litigation by Pacific Rim (Oceana Gold) that sued the ...
... put states and governments like ours against the wall, giving priority to the interests of international companies,” said Montes.
After years of legal wrangling, the World Bank court awarded El Salvador' ...