About the Project

The Network for Justice in Global Investment is a joint effort by citizens and organizations in a variety of countries to challenge one of the most anti-democratic aspects of the global economic order – the rules governing international investment. Read More.

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Stop private firms exploiting poor states

A Cafta provision means a mining corporation can sue El Salvador for its gold. Obama can stop this from happening again

Source: guardian.co.uk

By Kevin Gallagher

As a senator, Barack Obama voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta), because it did “little to address enforcement of basic environmental standards in the Central American countries.” A conflict over gold mining in El Salvador reveals that Cafta and

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Salvadoran Group Fighting Investor-state Cases by Global Mining Firms Honored in Washington

Manuel Pérez Rocha

Institute for Policy Studies

Five Salvadoran social activists traveled to Washington, DC in October to receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ prestigious international Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award, in an emotional celebration.  At the same event, Domestic Workers United in New York, was recognized and awarded at a national level.

These Salvadorans are members of the renowned  National Roundtable on Mining

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Join our Serious Debate for Real Change!

Readers and Friends: 

Join our Serious Debate for Real Change!   Read the commentaries and join in the forum. 

We begin with commentaries by: Sarah Anderson (Institute for Policy Studies); Benjamin A. Gilman (former US Congressman); Christian Leathley (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, and author); Edgardo Mira (CEICOM, El Salvador); Jeffrey Pryce (Steptoe & Johnson, LLP); Edward B. Scott (Chevron); Jim Shultz (The Democracy Center); and William

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El Salvador’s Gold Fight

Source: Foreign Policy In Focus

By Michael Busch

As El Salvador transitions from decades of conservative rule to the administration of leftist President Mauricio Funes, the country faces an international showdown triggered by a restrictive free-trade agreement between the United States and Central America. Canada’s Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the government for its refusal to allow it to mine gold in El Salvador’s rural north.

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Argentine Crisis Arbitration Awards Pile Up, but Investors Still Wait for a Payout

Posted 25-June-2009 at Law.com

By Luke Eric Peterson

In September 2007, executives at CMS Gas Transmission Co. had good reason to believe that the company would soon be getting a sizable check in the mail. The Michigan energy firm had been the first of dozens of foreign multinationals to file damages claims against the government

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