regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates of french company sued egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage astonishingly these arbitration 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 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. 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. make any sort of walk here for you because of the awful

sun come your face all over for the. 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 deductible this young. boy press goodish would feel draw for i was going to you see sort of just jumps i won't do. with or create powers or just emerging all countries 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.

cliff. 2 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 rendon 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 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.

i. under his rental will seek private just as he chooses to defend himself in paris with. a business lawyer specializing in arbitration disputes. ringback. hello. yes and yes no longer me just like right there. listen 1st. yours we are past the cooling off period did not result in the kind of mediation that separates and forget jeremy when one question i was thinking of was the cooling off period how long is that normally somewhere into the middle course. which there's a good mating oh the 3 orbit triggers that will constituent the patrician panel which still takes weeks at least. i believe columbia well

challenge jurisdiction of the courts. to make decision on this with confidence and then we will really move to yes the case yeah hopefully hopefully they're crossing fingers they'll be productive be nice. 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. this to move to cuba she moved into a new phenomena the evil empire national. did you go to an emotional moment of this new some chinese it as an. it isn't the who would have it but i. mean you can see it only steam can you keep it up. a lot should have been a mature country and because. the. free trade agreements need 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. whose

twenty's and should. be. safe and more to the wall and done tell the children from the teach this to me even then. i throw in 20 these seem to fit sort out of. the known. 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 aide abuse or overly restrictive legislation.

because that's you know since ones i may not 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 with us. and isn't this just. if it was just for fun for most folks simply isn't. did you feel. the need to be priests and if you want susan's to be clinton assume. these arbitrators are not judges but business lawyers who take turns as the main arbitrator state defender or corporate defender. 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 always in the interest of the populations involved. was. was. 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 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 might say. you know 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. that would more get out of this business. if they did it and. the money on monday and they don't like you. on the money on one of them. but good luck good and then i will see to. that they can dig up on that wouldn't help with that when i'm with that you can come up with

nobody. to. propose that is was. bad that i didn't see it if you don't know enough of it but does feel. that if it did i don't know what info is good it will be just as. 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. enjoyed your kids. into a number of. what i found. out about yeah. so if i.

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you just have to fly between 2 kinds of low and as fast as you can. do much of it i was watching the producer with the push for the quebec. nature version of the nature. of the engine mr was in 1st no sense prevailed of course moral russians in racing is competition in the extreme to have a full as the specified route between the lines with the fastest time wins just beautiful little boy loses nothing but you're going to get there which you should. reduce believe plus loucheux to good they're really trying to. gather financial survival guide i don't buy a i pass on a few trips. think of the 5. as the last time i buy it from the future the truck i watch kaiser. if.

i. think who got us in central decide for example of this t.n.t.'s before did they the death the clinton and flounder wasn't nuncio meaning of flu for looks. good about the salmon people from above the fifi is this who knew that if this same for fun said that she was about. night since she had this is. a duck it's a city i see if i wanted to know why when anything but up way to put him out he'd say it's time to the chances he's had with her let's hear now from him but whatever form we put something we've got to sort it out i use a constituent i used ride 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. and many sacred sites of this land are its living organs. and sharing the ceremony the shoeman mentally draw as a path they connect these sights a pound of healing that must remain untouched. with them whether that is the family if they come in number you thoughtfully. it's there and i said by this wonder brothers for a lab for use as a flume didn't we threaten me if i. had got to do research. phone or own fish own teeth you've been in another life your foetid for what it. it

always takes you a bit of time. the indians have not always spoken with a single voice. 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 little gifts. to. a consultation meeting is organized the tribes gather at the traditional house of the luca their meeting place. and. 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 if i don't buy that i would have a headache i'm not gonna be here but i don't. feel good but i could make it a better 993 am i looking at it. but everybody will know you. as is their mother. almost as good up as there was a. lawyer. i think a little more going to new york and bigger but where nick when they started you on them all know that if you walk in with the i don't want this to. go up in that young bum 100 and the most of that is going to give you more look at them. as.

i. like that. 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 of the potential profits. of. aden. we were talking with jeremy and he was updating us on some of the stuff that was 'd 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 by this do it fire you when you didn't used. to actually. this maybe 3 cabinet wide circle and trial it was a perilous trial just any environmental. chemicals. rock out there so stories about holding out for our korean air. except why this has nothing to do with you and the circumstances whatsoever this is about power and land today what i met with the so-called. chart. i read those 2 that you don't like. this is called yes we can do what we want. you stand it you solicit it. she said

yes she did but we decided to park their heads your last. stand there's more to. fill you because that's the biggest iron ore gold mine by in all colombia 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 arbitration is well. back off. even if when you should try and see any possibility of losing it all away with us and if it takes 2 years or takes 3 years back off you know. there's something illicit. going in for because.

i know him and i know. this in the credits and that is that in the long. medical when you because you're new at the other thing that is some of the mess in the list that unless you're not this money has the most good rate then i'm one of the boys young they've not done us for monday maybe i mean there's the 3030 of them but i did take the money that was there but they didn't is that the isleys analysis the money was a concern it was good to live in the us. combustibles that one of the finest who does this is the business in their lives. it's time to take action and to share this experience with other indigenous peoples .

representative of the operation 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 but they say. that is what i get that year. one carlos. urges communities to organize to preserve their autonomy and resist mining and tourism projects. i mean.

out because one top area that. the company's idea in. 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. our military. leaders meeting from yours those gentlemen did not israeli hear me. but operate on the. grounds that the barrackers minister. in no sense. ok no way to

. know when is it going to get. you some skin in the car as he is beginning a civilian in the us it's got him on the road what is a secret to all of us one could look at but our killing. him is only that brazil get open a business this year is the opposite of the suppose it's going to be in the sun is that was the really the. i got the form i see on kevin durant in the lead but he's . got the victim we're. 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 is for me a ph d. supervisor gus van hartman 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 wanted to talk to you about the one. person 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 authorities were saying that the agreements negotiated were positive for the corn 3 and that foreign investors would never start a tram in the corner in these very moment that is what happened then why is that colombian 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 we're forced to reach through and these 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 like why i have i call them 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. to do. so when they. say. let's look sick in the next that dodge i may do so why don't you see. if you know could you be divinely good because it's us you know i think you dislike. a 50 year old. what don't you see too i don't see you next that dog isn't good doctors are not so i learned so many blunders that there's only.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical if. you sit down and talk. only isn't there a need for a list of those. she wrote the book you. want to be used to.

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