... Disputes published a working paper that proposes several reforms with respect to TPF.
Tackling third-party funding will not resolve the many other outstanding problems with the ISDS system, but it is ...
... submitted it to the multiparty legislative Environment and Climate Change Commission for discussion.
In 2012 important advances were made when the Legislature approved a bill to reform to Article 69 ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... a constitutional reform in 2014, which recognizes the existence of indigenous peoples in its territory, must ratify the ILO Convention 169 to guarantee the rights of its peoples.
We also ask that multilateral ...
... few political parties that have presented a legislative platform, may incorporate some environmental reforms such as the Water Law, Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, the Environment law and measures to ...
... years has won restrictions on mining in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Philippines, among other countries.16 The second is the movement to reform the biased investor-state dispute settlement ...
... Rim’s singular strategy at the state level to try to reform El Salvador’s mining law to loosen regulatory requirements and enable its project to go forward.
In 2005, as the panel’s documentation makes ...
... it only available to those that have the money to pay. This study provides background information on the water situation in El Salvador, gives an analysis of the water reform, and describes reactions to ...
... reforms to attract foreign mining firms. But a community-based social movement changed that.
Led by a decade-old Salvadoran coalition “roundtable” (with some international support) against mining, this ...
... demand that local governments create laws prohibiting mining projects. They also want the new municipal laws to be taken into account in the national Congress and that the discussion resume on the reforms ...
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Even though the court dismissed the claim under the trade agreement, it gave the okay to pursue the case under Chapter 15 of the Investment Law of El Salvador – a reform of this law repealed the article ...
By: Gloria Silvia Orellana - CoLatino / Translated by: Samy Beltaief
Xenia Marroquìn, coordinator of Foro del Agua, regrets the decision of the Constitutional Commission to refuse the proposal to reform ...
... treaties containing ISDS provisions. All it takes is political will for governments to walk away from ISDS commitments and reclaim the right to protect their own environment. El Salvador recently reformed ...
... dispute settlement provisions in trade and investment agreements.
However, governments elsewhere are rethinking this model. El Salvador has reformed its national investment law to limit foreign corporations’ ...
... (ISDS) in trade and investment agreements, governments elsewhere are rethinking this model. El Salvador has reformed its national investment law to limit foreign corporations’ access to international arbitration ...
... for the Defense of Human Rights of El Salvador, have campaigned to reform Article 69 of the Constitution of the Republic to include provisions for the protection and guarantee of the rights to adequate ...
... the constitutional reform to recognize water as a human right so that their voters did not bleed.
But their support for the reform is not generating revenues or profit because big business (who are ARENA’s ...
... paralyzed since August 2013 as pro-business members of the commission utilize delaying tactics to curb debate.
In late October, an attempt to ratify a constitutional reform to recognize the right to ...
... Salvador to demand the adoption of a Law on Food Sovereignty and to ratify the constitutional reform to Article 69, to recognize the human rights to water and food.
The United Nations decreed that October ...