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 all damages claimed is about 4700000000 if you didn't know it's no surprise the trials are held behind closed doors everything takes place in utmost secrecy. every tradition are secret i mean that's that's the purpose of an arbitration if you don't want to get cleared as this just does 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 ducasse of the office on community affairs all over for the phone calls and all smart community activists

. to truly understand we need to penetrate a very violent system where multinationals sue our states and try to impose their laws. on. all power to live free to critical mistral beat up their whole. oil price could be a sort of feel draw fire as you see set up just trying someone to kill more judges a stroll along with their creek hours or just emerging all countries under gold is justice 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. i am.

cliff. 2 in columbia along the upper east river in amazonia north american mining companies are prospecting for gold at the liberty townsite the sacred birthplace of 7 indigenous peoples. 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 randall c.e.o.

of the canadian company cozy go associated with the texan company toby 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 you 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 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 over will seek private just as he chooses to defend himself in

paris with she have an issue of making a business lawyer specializing in arbitration disputes ringback. but i dare me. hello. and yes the lawyer me just went back there. listen 1st. yours we are past the cooling off period not result in any kind of mediation that separates and jeremy when one question i was thinking of was the big schooling off period how long is that normally somewhere into the middle course. which there's a meeting 0 the 3 or be triggers that will constituents is there patrician panel which still takes 2 weeks at least from sarah i believe columbia well challenge jurisdiction of the courts. to make decision on this

with confidence and then we will really move to yes that's the case yeah hopefully hopefully they're crossing fingers they'll be productive be nice. just go see goal 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 to get ability to work. one of our biggest shareholders from texas took the 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. steve nipple t.q. died to do so to see this through. to cuckoo 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 we would have it but. i repeat when you can see it only seemed he knew cuba. a lot should have been a mature country and because. the. free trade agreements love to understand that they had to respect the agreements so that investors' money 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 colombian people. and between the much.

more of the wall done the thought of it for you teach this to me even then. i throw in 20 these seem to fit sort of. unknown. a new area of tension in free trade agreements is the introduction of private arbitration . present in most international trade agreements this is still is supposed to guarantee a fair impartiality to foreign investors that they can defend themselves against 8 abuse or overly restrictive legislation. because that's you know since ones i mean i'm a do is going to. keep my question are you are if you think you know me

as you do several these are different from all of those in the classroom it isn't. it is a mystery said. if it was just for fun for most of the older folks in pleasing. to defeat on to another. piece and if it was susan's to be clinton and. yet these arbitrators are not judges but business lawyers who take turns as the main arbitrator state defender or corporate defender. the connelly pain 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 them is that old least in the

interest of the populations involved. was. was. when we were beginning to enter the area the northern native tribes want to true develop the might of the southern group who was not in the might was not on the area were motivated by n.g.o.s afforded 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. declare sacred sites but none of the sacred sites that they had identified are anywhere near the proposed might say. you know little piece

of that and yet. you don't buy it and they didn't read. they said yes but we got on to local. and would more get out of this. if they did and. then yeah monday and we don't. have a bunny on one of them. up with. the weekend then i will see to that the bask in that. they can dig up on that wouldn't help with that one was that it didn't come up with nobody. to. propose that is was. that. see if you had been so on the list but does your own.

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 nilson ortiz a member of this ng go regularly returns to support the indians in their fight against mining is. going to trickle see. my thier kids. in the united. way down to what i found. out about yeah. so if i. get 98 feet out. of that i'm going this will be

a man. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise that you know we've all pots the truth. pretty. much.

now you want to 1st. know. all. i can link up my yeah. i can show you my faith but i'm going to teach you my story in 1993 this man was sentenced to death. they could charge kenny with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week with the sound of a $23.00. doubt that i deserved to be. confined within 4 green walls defunded so using. our to help him to leave defense room.

thanks. to. feel. safe in who got s.s. in santo disagree with the example of this t.n.t.'s before did they the death the clinton men feel when i wasn't nazi owning a floor for

a loaf when i got about the salmon people in the book you feel is this food that if they say for fun said that she was about 5 nights since she had this is a media a duck it's a 66 if i see the i want to know why one ending but up way to put my details into the chances she's out with her let's hear now from a bit of what it was for me for fun can we get it up i yes because she won our year died by did i you thought i could ask you a few. feet the indigenous peoples of the forest fanta dozens of ethnic groups who share the same origin stories. to many sacred sites of this land are its living organs. ensuring the ceremony the shoeman mentally draw is

a path that connects these sites a path of healing that must remain untouched. whether the theory is that. the number. if. the. cyclone didn't wait for the next. few. days always takes you a bit of time and. the indians have not always spoken with a single voice. andres wendel problem is the money and

a better life of some in the indigenous community the elders in general refused all mining from the start but others were tempted by rentals little gifts. to. a consultation meeting is organized the tribes gather at the traditional house of the their meeting place. worry because it goes complained they are making a manifesto for the colombian state to reaffirm their resistance to mining. as they are not now and i think it could affect all payments and it had to get that private and i got mine i got it and i'm taking. him out of that but what does that come of it a bit of good advice that i would have not gotten lucky here but i don't want. to

do good by to make it a bit better than you're going to get my looking at it. but everybody will know you. as is their mother you. moses moved it up and there was a. phenomenon mocking the both of you know if it's a noise. i think a little more going to. the quickness of if you want to move them although they see one thing with the i don't want this to. happen that young. husband doesn't think that he. can be moved to look at the name of. the life. that they want to. create gulf 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 then. 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 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. i mean my opinion is that as you know and history striven to. do what. you want you can use up towards atlanta to actually. you know exploration is this

maybe 3. and truly trust was a perilous trail just any park city. chemicals extract this rock out there so all the stories that perhaps old are going to form. by this has nothing to do with the environment and these circumstances whatsoever this is about power and land to be what i bet with the so-called. charge. to that. we can do what we want. you to stand it. she said yes she did but we decided to park on their heads your last. standard for tameka if we simply received dillion because that's the biggest iron ore gold mine combined in all of colombia toppy in all old south america i'm very positive the commies. are out

going to be 16. closer to you when it's all. when we think our next trip for arbitration is well. i suppose not backing off. even if when there's a draw and i see any possibility of losing go all the way with this and if it takes 2 years or takes 3 years we're not backing off. the announcement. this isn't a right as you know and that is that. there is some of this in the

list that unless you notice money has the most good rate then i'm one of the boys young they've not done us they maybe i mean there's no that he is now but i did get the meat in. but there they must that yes they should know this. is a contortionist of the. combustibles that what is being done is put out this is just in their list. 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. more than 1000 people are present you broke it back they say. that is what i get 30. 1 carlos. urges communities to organize to preserve their autonomy and resist mining and tourism projects. i mean. our area. here in. the. carlos wants to spread the word to a wider audience. to at the end.

he meets markel velasquez a lawyer specializing in international commercial. and human rights. no quote seem to mean our down by economy america joining iraq i've no doubt as to this question of. our military this maybe i do know this is me in from europe as those in germany did not it is very nice here i mean it was not on the net. you better say no stepped. in no stepped up in no way to. know when is it going to go on can also use. canoe car as he uses beginning in the us is government out of what is a secret good part of the thing one could look at but our kids in the me that brazil get openly discussed this years the opposite would have been that are

beating the bushes going to be in the street is that was he really. as they got him for my feet on kerry in there in the limb but he's. got the victim very. very concerned by the attacks of foreign multinationals against his country monaco is writing articles and preparing a book on the subject. he is visiting his former ph d. supervisor and hearten 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 about the

one there is a process go out of ignoring case yes 16000000000 us i would say to. and 3 percent of colombia's national public budget it was quite surprising because public authorities were saying that the agreements negotiated were positive for the corn 3 and that foreign investors would never start by claiming that corn 3 in these very moment is what happened at the end why is that columbian law is not good enough for these foreign investors it is not the case that colombe the data sheets we're 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 our efforts 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 them was about berman 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 they can do deals. when they also say. look sick in the next that dodge i may

do so why don't. you let's you know could you be divinely good because it's us you know. kiddish what democratic a 50 year old going to do this work you have to see on talk to see 20 young sits in an exit dog isn't good enough the law allows a sony bonus and that's only. your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to happen and when it's going to. but they haven't told you and they

haven't told me they have them and they'll. imagine something as big as the earth. is going to cause tidal waves earthquakes volcanoes are wrapped and it's going to chill. so very for a while right. my great grandfather's. nobody would care about the law or prison so you'd have wallace of. a turtle lice and between the and the. bleeding and weird things by the way is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system it's a feature it comes equipped in the software of our program mean to try to connect things in the environment just in case there's a real connection. in

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