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so. what is true. is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate of the shallowness. this. autumn 2016 millions of europeans are taking to the streets while learning it has refused to sign the free trade agreement with canada triggering a crisis across europe. that. i am not and that the treaty negotiations brought to light
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a largely unknown organization international arbitration. that allow multinationals to sue states. morse is trying to use i.s.t.'s to stop oracle from implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates of french company sued egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage astonishingly these arbitration tribunals can oblige states to pay huge compensation $50000000000.00 by all standards this is the largest award ever. to token amount of damages claimed as about 5700000000 if you didn't know it's no surprise the trials are held behind closed doors everything takes to. yes
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in utmost secrecy. every trace our secrets i mean that's that's the purpose of an arbitration if you don't want to. clear it as is just has come from who organizes it and who defends us. after all in the end it's we the taxpayers who pay the bill. keogh for years for the office on community of faith all over for them. to do that because through. to truly understand we need to penetrate a very violent system where multinationals are states and try to impose their laws . can leverage your critical mistral deductible. or replace good deeds is what if. she said it just jumps up. with or create towers or just emerging all countries
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undergo this justice and this affects our most basic rights health the environment wages and human rights we finally reveal the incredible power of international arbitration tribunals. oh and. it's clear. 2 2 in colombia along the upper east river in amazonia north american mining companies are prospecting for gold at the liberal town site the sacred birthplace of 7 indigenous peoples.
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but in 2009 concerned about the environment the colombian state classified the zone as a natural park which ended the mining concession 2 . after years of negotiation attempts with the colombian government in 2016 andres to mendon c.e.o. of the canadian company cozy go associated with the texan company told the mining counterattacks he files an arbitration request i personally did not know of the option of international arbitration where it will always heard of the world court but we do know of my time i don't believe that was between 2 governments that were debating things. but the ability to take our case to the international court of arbitration was
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a welcome relief for our shareholders to know that we don't have to depend on maybe some emotional sentiment by a judge in some rural location who is being pressured by his local. mayor. andries to bend on will seek private just as he chooses to defend himself in paris with. a business lawyer specializing in arbitration disputes. but i dare me. hello. and yes the lawyer me just like right there. listen 1st. yours we are past the cooling off period did not result in any kind of mediation that's the. question i was thinking of
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was the big schooling off period how long is that normally somewhere into the middle course. which there's a good mating oh the 3 or be triggers that will constituent the patrician panel which still takes 2 weeks at least from sarah i believe columbia well the jurisdiction of the courts. to make decision on this would come from then and then we will really move to yes the case hopefully hopefully they're crossing fingers they'll be productive i've been doing this. i suppose see gold starts to face difficulties with this debate going on between the ministry of mines and energy and the ministry of environment we found ourselves with begin ability to work. one of our biggest shareholders from texas talking
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mining and energy motivated the company to seek. arbitration as a way of solving this dispute of this difficulty between the colombian government as a whole and the company. skew nipple to die to do. this you should move to cuba she moved into a new phenomena limbo nationals. did you vote on an option only this new some chinese in assume an. it is i think you would have it but. i don't reject when you can see it only seemed he knew cuba. a lot should have been a mature country and because columbus signed the. free trade agreements. to understand that they had to respect the agreements so that investors' money
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would not be lost or stolen. there was a lot of money a lot of effort and a lot of motivation from small investors getting together small investors to combine their resources and work under the colombian government regulation of it helped the ministry of mines by assets for the call of the people. and between the machine. and. the. more of the wall done tell the children from teach this to me even then. i throw in 20 these seem to fit sort out. the no on. a new area of tension in free trade agreements is the introduction of private arbitration
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. present in most international trade agreements this is still is supposed to guarantee a fair impartiality to foreign investors so that they can defend themselves against aid abuse or overly restrictive legislation. because it would be honest you know since ones i mean i'm a do is going to. keep. if you seek me as you do several these are different from all of those in the classroom it isn't the surf of us who. it is a mystery. if this will for some for most folks simply reason. to defeat on another. piece and if you want susan's to be clinton assume. these arbitrators are not judges but business lawyers who take turns as the main
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arbitrator state defender or corporate defender. highly paid they are often seen as a true multimillionaire industry dominated by a small elite acting in great secrecy and too often giving priority to investors. while in some cases it seems normal to compensate is that old least in the interest of the populations involved. was. i. when we were beginning to enter the area the northern native tribes watch a tree develop the might of the southern group who was not in the might was not on
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the area were motivated by n.g.o.s appointed geos named and they were voted to go against the might so they try to set up sacred sites on a map. by discussing with certain spiritual leaders that they were motivating to declare sacred sites but none of the sacred sites that they had identified are anywhere near the proposed bites a. little piece of the n.b.a. . yet owned by you and then they would be ready. they said he had better get on to a local. and win or get out of this. if they did and.
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then yeah monday internet own version of it but i'd like you. on one of them. up with you all but in the lab did it and then i will see to him that the. they couldn't do. that when i was that it didn't come up with nobody. to. his was. that. get out and see if you got it and so on not that it does you and. if you did i don't know what info it did if they don't think. it was at the initiative of the end she'll guy amazonas that the natural park was created prohibiting gold mining on the entire indian reserve nelson ortiz a member of this ng go regularly returns to support the indians in their fight against mining is. going to trickle see.
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all that was i was. always told was oh yeah yeah those measures come on guys you have. all the measures one was going to disease but more than. a duck industry comes to life in los angeles every night. dozens of women sells the bodies on the streets many of them underage. los angeles police reveal a taste of their daily challenge if you're going to exploit for a child here in los angeles oh they were going to come out of your busy offices going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight 6 trade. shows seemed wrong. but old quote just don't call. me to call police
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yet to stamp out this day to come to africa. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when we choose to look for common ground. if. i if they do get. sent they'll decide. it's fanfold this t.n.t.'s people did they the death the clinton inflamed wasn't nuncio meaning of flu for low flu but about the same when people from above to feel flu is this food this same for a bunch of this and 2 is about. night since you this is so media a duck is a city i see if i wanted to know why when anything but up way to put them out.
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into the chances you saw with your not from a bit. but it was only for fun can we got to sort it out i used a constituent i used died by did i use the look with us here on. the indigenous peoples of the forest belong to dozens of ethnic groups who share the same origin stories. in many sacred sites of this land are its living organs. ensuring the ceremony the shoeman mentally draw is a path they connect these sites a path of healing that must remain untouched. with them whether that is the plan if they come up
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a number you thoughtfully and i both. it and i said by this wonder about this for a lab fuses have flown didn't we threaten me if i. had got to do research. what us phone all own both their own teeth you fly it been it never left you on folded filled it full. it always takes you a bit of time. the indians have not always spoken with a single voice. andres wendell promised the money and a better life some in the indigenous community the elders in general refused all mining from the start but others were tempted by rentals little gifts. to.
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a consultation meeting is organized the tribes gather at the traditional house of the luka their meeting place. and. worry because it goes complained they are making a manifesto for the colombian state to reaffirm their resistance to mining. so they are not now and i think it could affect all payment and it had to get that private and i got money i think at the time to make a. name out of that but what does that come of it but if i didn't buy that i would have a headache i'm not gonna eat here but i don't. feel good but i do make it if i go and then you know i think yeah my looking at it. but everybody will know you. as is their mother. you know up as well as a. lawyer.
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i think a little more going to new york and bigger but oprah where nick when they started you on them all know this you're in with the i don't want this you. know i mean that young. that are going to give you money they look at they must. say. this. was. a little bit. of separates the world views of the indians and miners. seek to protect their intentional property and culture. others think only of extracting the gold in indian soil and as a potential profits. yeah
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. we were talking with jeremy and he was updating us on some of the stuff that was going on with the arbitration and that you know they were probably acting in bad faith both with in my opinion both with the 1st nations people and especially with the company on the pretext. of you know the environment so i don't know if you have any anything extra you know we can tell them to let our partners know down there. well i mean my opinion is that as you know and history straight if i. do it by you when you get used. to actually. maybe 3 why are call. any environmental just chemicals. just rock out there so all your stories about holding out for our
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country and they're also. why this has nothing to do with the environment and the circumstances whatsoever this is about power and land today what i met with the so-called. chart. i read. too bad you know like. this is called b.s. we can do what we want. if you can stand it you solicited. she said yes she did but we decided to put a part of their heads your last. standard for tameka. dillion because that's the biggest iron ore coal mine by in all the a copy of all south america i very. loose my car out going to be 60. 8 days. it's closer. to where we think our next trip or enough arbitration is well. i'll see cars out
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back and. even if i went to trial and i see any possibility of losing it all away with this and if it takes 2 years or takes 3 years back off yeah. i'm going to listen. in for because. i know them and i know. this is the greatest and that is that i've done them a lot benumbed medical money because you're listening to some of the soon the list that unless you're not in this money place the most good rate that i'm one of the boys young they've not done us more man they maybe i mean there's no that in 30 of them is that but i did take the money that was there but they missed that the isleys are now this year's money because they can thought it was good that the us is combustibles at what has to be done is
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a balloon and this is the business in their lives ruined lives and. it's time to take action and to share this experience with other indigenous peoples . representative of the. reserve one carlos' press yaddo presents the manifesto to the international forum of indigenous peoples organized by the bogota state. in addition to the indian populations this forum includes academics n.g.o.s and government members. of the forums goal to support the indigenous peoples of south america in their right to be consulted before the adoption of all projects they concern them.
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more than 1000 people are present you broke it back they say. that this was how to get. one carlos. urges communities to organize to preserve their autonomy and resist mining and tourism projects. what i mean. jessica more damage it out because one top area that. the company's idea in. to. one carlos wants to spread the word to a wider audience. to at the end. he meets markel velasquez a lawyer especial izing in international commercial law and human rights. our doubt he's going to be honored to join
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a i've no doubt those who do square. i want to marry. me in from yours those gentlemen did not is very nice here. but operate on the. grounds that you barrackers minister. in no sir. ok no way to. know when is it going to get on can. you some skin in the car as he uses became a civilian in the us it's got him on the road what is a secret up to all of us one could look at but after killing. him is how many that brazil get open a business this year is the opposite you get in that are beaten the boss is going to be prime minister is that was he really. as they got him for my feet on kevin durant in the lead but he's. either going to be picked on very. very concerned by the attacks of foreign multinationals against his country monaco is
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writing articles and preparing a book on the subject. he is visiting his former ph d. supervisor gus van harden in toronto to discuss the upcoming trial. a specialist in international investment law highly critical of arbitration tribunals he has regularly intervened on the international scene sounding the alarm for years. but only in 5 of the last weeks have been like a roller coaster in colombia i mean these claim. no one i want to talk to you about that this one is a force of go out of ignoring case yes 16000000000 us i would say 20 percent of colombia's national public budget it was quite surprising because public
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authorities were saying that the agreements negotiated were positive for the corn 3 and that 4 ng investors would never start a tram in the corn 3 in these very moment where it is what happened then why is that colombian law is not good enough for these foreign investors it is not the case that core long. i think fate or sheeps were trying to solve our problems we're trying to become a more stable country and we have the means to do it but with these type of cases all the work force to reach durable peace are put into question it's not the 1st country to be surprised by a foreign investor claims these treaties are like a ticking time bomb for taxpayer sooner or later they so there's not a lot of public discussion of these cases not i don't as well likewise i have a column in the newspaper and i try to open the gate but the only thing i got from
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them was about her money and ignorance that's because it's embarrassing to the trade department to see these treaties that they negotiated. used against the country if you're a foreign investor and you want to leverage against the government of course you would have an interest in many cases to keep it all confidential because if you keep it confidential and the government keeps a confidential then they can do deals. to do. so when they. say he. looks it in an exit dodge i may do so we don't know until the deal. gets us you know i think you did. a 50 year old. what don't you see 20 seats next that dog isn't good but you should also i love. surely
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