Republished from Both ENDS
See chapter on "ISDS, Extractive Industries and the Pacific Rim vs El Salvador case" on page 231, written by Sarah Anderson and Manuel Perez Rocha from the Institute for Policy ...
... 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 ...
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The potential impact of the ICSID ruling has anti-mining activists in El Salvador rethinking their strategy for possible game changing scenarios.
“We cannot sit and wait to react to the circumstances” ...
... the trade agreement with Canada which is 85% negociated, all in secret-, rethinking participation in the ICSID and changing the Investment Law.
Ending Impunity
The threats, attacks and murders resulting ...