Aguiar and Vargas, 2015
This paper exemplifies several articles describing different struggles that have occurred between transnational corporations and people fighting for their rights. One of them ...
... by linking up counterpowers opposing the most powerful corporations on the planet.
"Peoples Sovereignty vs. Impunity Inc.: Counterpower and Struggles for Justice” presents, in eight articles, various ...
... claims in domestic courts.
Below is an editorial aired on the ARPAS Radio Network that calls for support for the Mesa.
A Question of Sovereignty
By, the ARPAS Editorial Team
Yesterday, the ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
... energy and mines to pressure the municipal authorities and to disregard the sovereignty of the people of Asuncion Mita.
Therefore:
We communicate to the people of Asunción Mita that the consultation ...
... in Vallecito? How was this project born and what does it consist of?
Vallecito is a life project: a proposal for autonomy, food sovereignty, building local power, and a real power. In the sense that ...
... of Honduran sovereignty or were simply a new form of democratic local government. The constitutional charter of Honduras’ first ZEDE, Próspera, along with its extensive code of rules, was made public at ...
... the environment and Indigenous sovereignty is well-established. Any moves they’ve made toward accountability have been halfhearted.
The Canada Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), set up to ...
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In Honduras, the Council of Ministers approved an Executive Decree on April 11, which establishes "measures to guarantee food sovereignty and security." The next day, President Juan Orlando Hernández ...
... as water rights, food sovereignty, the effects of climate change and the defense of rights defenders human and the vulnerability of the population to natural phenomena.
“Human rights defenders, and ...
... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty Through International Arbitration
All in all, with the USCMA and the TPP, Mexico stands to remain the target of investor-state lawsuits from both the United ...
... in 1994. Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution in Article 422 declares that treaties or international instruments that permit international arbitration are unconstitutional for undermining the nation´s sovereignty. ...
... his project would be essential to guarantee the country's food sovereignty by reducing Mexico's dependence on fertilizer imports. And, that it would save millions in taxes.
The partnership with AHMSA
Odyssey ...
... presented the study ¨Extraction Casino: mining Companies gambling with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty through International Arbitration¨.
Moore highlighted how these lawsuits allow companies to ...
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Beside the impacts on the environment and to the residents’ livelihood, the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) documented cases human rights abuses.
“We have heard accounts of intensified ...
... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty through Supranational Arbitration,” exposes how transnational mining companies file multi-million dollar suits against Latin American countries to challenge key ...
... 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 ...
... undermining the sovereignty of the countries of Latin America."There is currently a strong debate about agreements that give TNCs what is left of our public services. These agreements have been negotiated ...
... 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 ...