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Resistance
Construyendo saberes para la resistencia al libre comercio
América Latina Mejor sin TLC | 18-Mar-2025
Es un curso abierto y participativo, pensado para entender cómo los tratados de libre comercio (TLC) y los tratados bilaterales de inversión (TBI) afectan nuestras vidas, nuestros territorios y la soberanía de los pueblos.
actions | resistance , agriculture | farmers | food , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America
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.
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.
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.
actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Civil society organisations push for transformative global investment rules
SOMO | 11-Dec-2024
The Entebbe Declaration calls for justice and sustainability in global investment governance.
actions | resistance , Africa , ECT , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Honduras against the corporate Goliath
TNI | 7-Nov-2024
An impoverished country resisting foreign investors’ claims.
actions | resistance , corporate interests , Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Honduras contra el Goliat corporativo
TNI | 6-Nov-2024
Después de un año de investigaciones, entrevistas, conversaciones y debates, logramos compilar en un reporte de 130 páginas la información básica sobre la avalancha de catorce demandas arbitrales contra Honduras en el corto periodo de 2023 hasta la mitad de 2024, además de las cinco demandas que el país había recibido antes de 2023.
actions | resistance , corporate interests , Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS
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.
actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , human rights , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
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.
actions | resistance , Canada , Ecuador , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , women
Serbia’s lithium gamble: Reviving Rio Tinto’s mine amidst protests and economic promises
TNI | 12-Sep-2024
In 2021, Rio Tinto filed a notice of dispute related to the government announcement to cancel the Lithium project in the Jadar Valley under the UK-Serbia bilateral investment agreement.
actions | resistance , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Serbia