Edgardo Ayala - IPS News
(IMAGE) Residents of the municipality of San Rafael Las Flores maintain a permanent sit-down in front of the Constitutional Court, in the centre of Guatemala’s capital, to demand ...
... sources in the community. Instead of responding to concerns raised by the public, the company sued the government of El Salvador, first in local courts and later at the International Centre for the Settlement ...
... tribunal rejected OceanaGold’s claim for US$250 Million against El Salvador for not having granted it a permit to mine. The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) instead ordered ...
... government of El Salvador: US based Commerce Group for $100 million and Pacific Rim Mining (later OceanaGold) sued for $301 million US at a World-Bank housed tribunal, the International Centre for Settlement ...
... Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) against El Salvador. It is also the same year when three anti-mining community leaders and an unborn baby were brutally murdered in northern El Salvador, ...
... enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), the Transnational Institute, Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM), Friends of the Earth International, La Via Campesina and Human Rights and Business Centre/UFJF ...
... 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 ...
... and continued with the suit despite broadband opposition to mining and plebiscites in five municipalities declaring themselves mining-free zones.
In October 2016, the World Bank’s International Centre ...
... protests, petitions, testimonies, reports on the impact of mining, and study trips and delegations. Finally, after seven years of deliberations at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...
... the unexploited gold – $314m later reduced to $250m. They initiated an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) case at the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). ...
... tell that the company was at the centre of international controversy over two of its mine projects in 2016 and early 2017. Ignoring significant problems in El Salvador and the Philippines, however, will ...
... The following year, the company filed a claim against El Salvador with the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a supranational arbitration tribunal housed at the World ...
... rights.
Under Free Trade Agreement rules, the case ended up before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a World Bank tribunal, which found that the company had not complied ...
... permit for a proposed gold mine or US$250 million dollars.
The Washington D.C.-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) panel decided that OceanaGold’s predecessor Pacific ...
... giant OceanaGold/PacRim. Although an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruling in October, 2016 was a major victory for El Salvador, the company has still not paid the court-ordered ...
by Karen Hudlet : Equal Times
In October this year, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) decided in favour of El Salvador in a case brought by the US mining ...
... WA
Edmund Rice Centre (Australia)
El Salvador Australia Friendship Association Inc
FMLN Canberra Committee
FMLN Adelaide Committee
FMLN Sydney Committee
Latin America Solidarity Network, LASNET ...
... associated with private tribunals, such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which heard the PacRim Cayman v. El Salvador case.
Rachel Small from the Council of Canadians ...
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In response to the moratorium, in 2009 a Pacific Rim subsidiary called Pac Rim Cayman took El Salvador to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID, an arbitration panel ...
... International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID/ CIADI), with respect to the case that the Pacific Rim-Oceana Gold mining company had initiated in June 2009 against El Salvador.
This ...