UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations
Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
... that the Trifinio treaty does not ban mining in the area, Sanchez Ceren, the FMLNs presidential candidate, said that "the treaty establishes that any decision -that will affect the reserve- has to be agreed ...
... in Costa Rica; in October 2012 Toronto-based Infinito Gold announced that it would sue Costa Rica at ICSID for over $1bn under the Canada-Costa Rica Bilateral Investment Treaty, after the country’s Supreme ...
... resulting from the mine would violate the constitution of each of the countries and also international agreements such as the Trifinio Plan Treaty, signed by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras; the UN ...
... extract mineral from the subsoil.
The above mentioned amendment to the Investment Law may be considered a positive step, albeit and insufficient one if there still exist commercial treaty provisions ...
... reforming Article 15 and including an aspect relating to the settlement of disputes which provide that any controversy that is not under a treaty or agreement will be adjudicated through local legislation." ...
... be adding insult to injury as this treaty contains similar clauses that allow for the violations of constitutional rights as CAFTA-DR does. In that regards, memebrs of La Mesa also requested the chamber ...
... that the 1825 Anglo-Argentine Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation guaranteed Argentina would serve as a market for British industrial goods, while exporting meats and grains—its “comparative ...
... suit under the U.S-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty to try to evade complying with judgments made and confirmed in U.S. and Ecuador courts. Even before it decided it had jurisdiction, a tribunal issued ...
... was signed into law on August 2, 2005. El Salvador became the first of the Central American nations to implement DR-CAFTA after the treaty took effect in the country on March 1, 2006….
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