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i says across europe. that. i am not and that the treaty negotiations brought to light a largely unknown organization international arbitration type bugles that allow multinationals to sue states. philip morris 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 you didn't know
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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 go clear it is 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. company directors through. 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 just put their komisar beat up their whole. oil price good deeds
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usually feel to the debacle now you see set up just trying to do. with or create towers 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. to. close. 2 in colombia along the upper east river in amazonia north american mining companies are prospecting for gold at the liberal town site the
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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 rendel 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 here are my time i don't believe that was between 2 governments that were debating things. but the ability to take our
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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. 2 andries to mental seek private justice 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
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result in any kind of mediation that's the. 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 o. the 3 or b. triggers that will constituent the patrician panel which still takes 2 weeks at least and. i believe columbia well the jurisdiction of the courts. to me this is another this with confidence and then we will really move to yes the case hopefully hopefully they are crossing fingers they'll be productive i've been doing this. because see goals starts to face difficulties with this debate going on between the
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ministry of mines and energy and to the ministry of environment we found ourselves with the good ability to work or whatever because shareholders from texas told 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. skew nipple t.q. died to do so though she. knew she could she move into a new phenomena did you limp on national. did you go to an emotional moment of this new some tries it as an. it is i think it was of it. and when you can see did it only seem he knew cuba. a lot should have been
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a mature country every because of his side to be. free trade agreements. to understand that they had to respect the agreements so that investors' money would not be lost 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. in. the twenty's and she. used to. be. more to the wall and done it thought of it for you teach this to me. that's true and then you. throw in 20 these seem to fit sort of.
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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 so that they can defend themselves against hate abuse or overly restrictive legislation. because that's you know since once i may do is going to. keep 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 with the surf of us who. and isn't this just. if this is with us and for most of the older folks simply isn't. did you feel. the need to be priests and if you want susan's to be clinton assume.
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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 obese in the interest of the populations involved. was. was.
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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 the area were motivated by n.g.o.s afforded geos named and they were voted to go against the might so they tried 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 might say. you know little piece of it and yet. you don't buy it i think if you get. they said he had better get on to a local. and would more get out of this. if they did and.
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don't like you. on one of them. but. it and then i will see. that. they can do. that when i'm with that you can come up with. that is was. that. get out and see if you get it and so on not that it's because you don't. do that i don't know what info is good it will be just as. it was at the initiative of the end shield guy amazonas that the natural park was created prohibiting gold mining on the entire indian reserve nilson ortiz a member of this ngo regularly returns to support the indians in their fight
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that's the crucial point of the book at bottom line of the book namely i think you're pretty much stuck with your looks but if you have other things that you're good at either music or running or doing intellectual work or politics then one should take advantage of one's advantages and project ours and forget about the fact that you may not be the best looking person on the block. 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 haven't announced. imagine something as big as the earth
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. is going to cause tidal waves or earthquakes volcanoes erupt and it's going to chill. so very for a while right. my great grandfather's quote. nobody would care about the law or prison so you'd have wallace the should have. a terrible life between now and. if. i if they do get s.s. and santa will decide for example this t.n.t.'s before did they the death the
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clinton inflamed wasn't nuncio meaning of flu for law. but about the same one people from above do you feel is this film this same for bunch addition to is about. night since you this is. a duck it's a city i see if i wanted to know why one ending but up way to put my details into the chances you saw with your my family but. what it was only for fun can we get a sort of i used to consume our youth died by our youth they look with us here in. 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
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its living organs. and sharing the ceremony the shoeman mentally draw is a path that connects these sites a power of healing that must remain untouched. with and have waited to hear is that benefit from the 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. got to do research. what a phone all own both their own teeth you have it been it never left your folded folded it full. it always takes you a bit of time and. the
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indians have not always spoken with a single valise. under a swindle promised 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 a little gift. a consultation meeting is organized the tribes gather at the traditional house of the luca their meeting place. worry because it goes complained they are making a manifesto for the colombian state to reaffirm their resistance to mining. to so they are not now and i think it could affect all payment and it had to get that private and i got mine i think at the time to make a. name out of that but what does that come of it but if i don't buy that i would
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have a headache and not got any money yeah but i don't. feel good but i've got to make it if i go and then you're going to get my definitive you know. everybody will know you. as is their mother. almost as good as you as a. lawyer. i think a little more going to new york and bigger but oprah where nick when this up if you want them all know this you're in with the i don't want this you. know i mean that young. don't move a t.v. remote they look at them. as. this is. the way that. they want to. separate the world views of the indians and miners. seek to
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protect their intentional property and culture. others think only of extracting the gold in indian soil and disappear tensional profits. yeah. 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 is triggered if i.
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do it by you when you get used. to actually. you know. maybe 3 why are all. just any environmental. chemicals extract this rock out there so stories about holding out for our korean air. why this has nothing to do with the environment and these circumstances whatsoever this is about our client today what i've met with the so-called. charge . i read. too that you don't like silis. we can do what we want. you stand it. she said yes you did but we decided to park on their heads your last. standers for tameka if the city received for 6000000000 because that's the biggest iron ore coal mine by in all
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the a copy of all south america i very positive the commies are loose my car out going to be 60. 8. it's closer to. where we think our next trip or enough for patrician is well. i'll see cars out back off. even if one is a troll and i see any possibility of losing it all away with this and if it takes 2 years or takes 3 years back off there. is nothing to elizabeth. for because. i know of and i know. this in the thread as you know
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and that is that the long been known 40000000. dollars think that is some of the mess in the list that unless you're not in this money place that most kids are great then i'm one of the boys young they've not done us for monday maybe i mean there's not that in 30 years now but i did get the money going was there but they didn't is that the isleys analysis is money to say clinton was going to live in the us is that of combustibles that one of the dumbest who does this is the busiest and there are those who believes. it's time to take action and to share this experience with other indigenous peoples . representative of the upper east reserve one carlos' press yaddo presents the manifesto to the international forum of indigenous peoples organized by the bogota state. in addition to the
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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 that here. one carlos. urges communities to organize to preserve their autonomy and resist mining and tourism projects. i mean. out because one top area. is. the company's idea in.
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the. one carlos wants to spread the word to a wider audience. to at the end. he meets markel velasquez a lawyer specializing in international commercial law and human rights. to. our doubt he's going to be honored to join a round i view out as we do square. i want to marry the. meeting from yours those gentlemen did not israeli hear me. but operate on the. ground they're saying no step. in no start. ok no way to. know when is it going to get. you some skin in the car as he visits beginning in in the days it's got him on the road what is the good part of the
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thing one could look at but after killing. him is how many that brazil get open a business this year is the opposite to the suppose it's going to be in the sun is that the. idea got before them i see on t.v. and there in the limb but is. there going to be victim here. 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 p.h.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
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a roller coaster in colombia i mean these claim. no one i want to talk you know about the sort of. prosecco yet of ignoring case yes 16000000000 us i would say 20 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 starve or train the corn 3 in these very moment that is what happened then why is the columbian law is not good enough for these foreign investors it is not the case that car loan. i think they are sheeps 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 or not work force to reach durable peace are put into question it's not the 1st
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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 like why i have called them in the newspaper and i try to open their bait but they 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. and 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.
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