indigenous peoples

The rights of nature become a rallying point against an ascendant mining industry

Inside Climate News | 7-Mar-2025

Communities and ecosystems across the globe face heavy environmental damage from intensifying mining operations. A people’s tribunal probed the Canadian mining industry’s impact on the natural world and the people defending it.

keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America , mining

Good for mining but bad for democracy? Why Indigenous groups in Ecuador oppose free trade deal with Canada

CBC | 17-Feb-2025

Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a now-concluded free trade agreement with Canada, warning it could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.

keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining

Des Autochtones s’opposent à l’accord de libre-échange entre le Canada et l’Équateur

Radio-Canada | 17-Feb-2025

La plus grande organisation autochtone de l’Équateur s’engage à lutter contre un accord de libre-échange qui vient d’être conclu avec le Canada.

keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining

How to buy a piece of a lawsuit and impoverish a country

Inside Climate News | 10-Dec-2024

Investors buying into claims against governments are winning huge payouts. Developing nations, and the environment, are losing big.

keywords: Denmark , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , sovereignty | democracy

Labour unions express concerns about proposed free trade agreement with Ecuador

United Steelworkers | 20-Oct-2024

We are writing on behalf of Canadian unions that are deeply concerned about the current negotiations for a free trade agreement with Ecuador.

keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining

Des Autochtones de l’Équateur en tournée au Canada pour «défendre leurs territoires»

Le Devoir | 7-Oct-2024

Depuis une semaine, différentes communautés autochtones de l’Équateur ont parcouru ensemble le Canada pour partager leurs inquiétudes face à l’accord de libre-échange en cours de négociations entre leur pays et le Canada.

keywords: Canada , Ecuador , environment , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , women

Ecuadorian rights defenders

TIRP | 2-Oct-2024

Women leaders engaged in dangerous efforts to protect rights and the environment in Ecuador will visit Canada next week to speak out against trade talks aimed at expanding and attracting Canadian investment in resource extraction projects in ecologically vulnerable regions.

keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , women

How the international investment law regime undermines access to justice for investment-affected stakeholders

CCSI | 17-Sep-2024

From the perspective of investment-affected communities, foreign investments arise out of a partnership between the investor and the state. Impacted people are often not consulted or involved in project establishment or development.

keywords: indigenous peoples , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS

The international system that pits foreign investors against indigenous communities

Inside Climate News | 12-Jun-2024

Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign investors to sue governments for billions. A new report highlights this international legal system harms Indigenous Latin Americans.

keywords: environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America