Pacific Rim v. El Salvador and the Perils of Free Trade in the Americas
Council on Hemispheric Affairs Research Associate Krista Scheffey
July 30, 2010.
In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama published ...
... Americas Gold and Silver Corporation for their disregard of Mexican labor laws. Mexican activists accuse the Toronto-based company of preventing its workers from unionizing at the company mine in northern ...
... States and Italy. In Honduras, more protests are planned to take place on Friday September 4 and September 15, the country’s independence day.
On July 24, Erika Guevara, Amnesty International’s Americas ...
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Injunctions by communities and an NGO have seen Guatemala’s three main mines halted in recent years – cementing the country’s reputation as one of the world’s least favorable mining jurisdictions. ...
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In recognition of the communities’ ongoing resistance, earlier this month, over 100 organizations from Guatemala and throughout the Americas sent a letter to La Puya in celebration of their persistent ...
... Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (USA)
Rights Action (USA)
Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment (USA)
SERR (USA)
SHARE FOUNDATION (USA)
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas' ...
Elizabeth Malkin : EcoAmericas
The government of El Salvador and mining opponents won an important victory this month when an arbitration panel threw out an Australian-Canadian mining company’s demand ...
... World Bank disputes body over El Salvador arbitration
The Nation: El Salvador Ruling Offers a Reminder of Why the TPP Must Be Defeated
Truth Out: El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight
EcoAmericas: ICSID ...
... threat looms on the horizon. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a mega-free trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 countries in Asia and the Americas, could come before Congress this year. This agreement ...
By Carmen Rodriguez: Cipamericas
Since 2014, organized farmers from several municipalities of the department of Chalatenango, located in the north of the country, have expressed their full rejection ...
... of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
This case exemplifies the perils of the massive Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) being negotiated by the United States with other counties of the Americas, Asia ...
... Fair Trade and Investment Network
The International Grail Justice and Trade Agreements Network
Victorian Trades Hall Council
CANADA
Americas Policy Group
Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network ...
... Network
Victorian Trades Hall Council
CANADA
Americas Policy Group
Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network
BTS-Breaking the Silence
Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights
Canadians ...
... is a tiny country” affirmed Vidalina. “It is one of the most densely populated countries in the Americas which has ledto a major problem of deforestation and this in turn has led to serious shortages of ...
By Whitney Eulich, Staff writer
Published in: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0910/El-Salvador-buried-treasure-or-fool-s-gold
San Isidro, El Salvador. Walking through a sea of ...
... civilians,” according to a U.S. mercenary, the majority of its most brutal officers School of the Americas graduates, and the recipient of $6 billion from Washington from 1979 to 1992.
The exquisite ...
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Asian Peasant Secretariat
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Convergencia de Movimientos de los Pueblos de las Américas (COMPA)
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... public ways.
We honour all of those in El Salvador, as throughout the Americas, and across the planet, who fight for mother earth and all her people and creatures by resisting Canadian mining companies. ...