To stop the 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 the token amount of damages claimed as about 5700000000. 00 you didnt know its no surprise the trials are held behind closed doors everything takes place in utmost secrecy. Every tradition are secrets i mean thats thats the purpose of an arbitration if you dont want to get cleared as this just does come from who organizes it and who defends us. After all in the end its we the taxpayers who pay the bill. Keogh for years for the office on Community Affairs all over for the. Union activists. To truly understand we need to penetrate a very violent system where multinationals sue our states and try to impose their laws. Dont different your critical mr b. Dont you hold this young. Boy place good he is sure to feel drawn. Back when i see sort of just. Wither 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. And. Its clear. 2 that. 2 in columbia 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. But in 2009 concerned about the environment the colombian state cost the 5. 00 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 close the 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 was always heard of the world court but we you know in my time id only 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 dont 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 mental seek private justice he chooses to defend himself in paris with. A business lawyer specializing in arbitration disputes. Well as there are many. Hello. Yes and yes no longer me just like right there. Listen 1st. Yours were past the cooling off period did not result in any kind of mediation thats the. One question i was thinking of was the cooling off period how long is that normally somewhere into the middle course. Which theres a mating oh the 3 orbit triggers that will constituent the panel which still takes 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 the case yeah hopefully hopefully theyre crossing fingers theyll be productive be nice. Just go 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 to get ability to work. One of our biggest 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 that she. Could move to cuba she moved into new phenomena limbo nationals of the. Usual not an option only this new some chinese in assume an. It isnt the who was of it but the. Timing you can see it only seemed he knew cuba. A lot should have been a mature country every cause. To be. Free trade agreements. 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. Can. Be touchy and should. Be. More to the wall and done in tel aviv for you teach this to me. And. I throw in 20 these seem to fit sort out. 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 each abuse or overly restrictive legislation. Because thats you know since once i may do is going to. Keep. If you seek me as you do several these are different from all of those in the classroom it isnt with us. It is a mystery. If this will for some for most folks simply isnt. A defeat on another. Piece and if you want susans 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 payne 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. 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 the area were motivated by n. G. O. S supported 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. Yet on the that they did read. They said yes but you get on the local. And with more get out of this. I did end. To. Be interviewed on the persian matter but id like you. On one of them. Up with you all but. It and then i will say to him that. They couldnt do. That when i was that you can come up with. That is was. That. Get out and see if you got it and so on that that is because you dont feel. That if you do that i dont know what. Did it will be just as. It was at the initiative of the end shell guy amazonas that the natural park was created prohibiting gold mining on the entire Indian Reserve nelson ortiz a member of this in geo regularly returns to support the indians in their fight against mining. Going to trickle see. The. Kids. In the united. Way down. What i found. Out about yeah. So if i. Eat out. But im going this way if youre a man. Were entering into this strange space you know i think about in the ninetys in the beginning of perpetual copyright and so are copyright essentially laws become perpetual and intellectual creativity is dead and to a large degree now after petrol live at home so the dynamism that would be coming with new household creation is dead and to a large degree we have propecia wall money printing money and money. So we have this deadening of Economic Growth because the printing money keep those Zombie Companies and the zombie banks alive so were basically burying ourselves in perpetuity. As the main forms. Used to move the book with. Be feasibly using the media. To get. It sampled this t. N. T. s people did they the death the clinton inflamed wasnt not feeling a flip of a loaf. But about the salmon people from above do you feel is this this same for bunch of this youth was about nice sincere this is. A duck its a city i see a posse lead i wanted to know why one ending but up way to put my details into the chances you saw with us youre not from it but whatever form we function would want to sort it out i yes because you and i used died by our youth they look with us for. 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. Ensuring the ceremony the shoeman mentally draw is a path that connects these sites a pound of healing that must remain untouched. Must have waited to get that benefit from the number you thoughtfully dived with. It and i said by this wonder about this for a lab for use as a flume didnt we threaten me if i. Didnt have to do research. Phone or both these old teeth you get the in another left you on folded fold it folded forwards a few had it up by me. The indians have not always spoken with a single voice. Under a swindle promised the money and a better life for some in the Indigenous Community the elders in general refused all mining from the start but others were tempted by rentals a little gift. To. Give to a consultation meeting as organized the tribes gather at the traditional house of the luka their meeting place. Worry because it goes complained they are making a manifesto for the colombian state to reaffirm their resistance to mining. To just. Now and i think it could affect all payments and it hadnt is that private and i got mine i think at the time to make a. Name out of that my god what did that come of it but if i dont buy that i would have a headache im not gonna be here but i dont. Feel good but i could make it if i go and then you know i think yeah my looking at it. But everybody i know you. As is their mother. You know up as well as a. Lawyer. I think a little more going to new york and bigger but oprah where nick when they started you on the mall know that if you walk in with the i dont want this you. Know i mean that young mom would have been that motivated going to give you more look at them. Like that. Agreed gulf supper. The world views of the indians and miners. Seek to protect their intentional property and. Others think only of extracting the gold in indian soil and as a potential profits. To. Aid and. 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 dont 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 true even if i. Do it by you when you get used. To actually. Maybe. Why all. The environmental. Chemicals are. Just rock out there so all your stories about hold it up for. 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 socalled. Charge. Was too bad you know like. This is we can do what we want. She said yes you did but we decided to park on your last. Stand were talking. Still you just asked the biggest iron ore coal mine by in all of the a copy of all south america i very. Loose my car out going to be 60. Its closer to. Where we think our next trip or enough for patrician is well. I think ill start back. Even if i wanted to try and see any possibility of lucy doing all this and if it takes 2 years or takes 3 years back off there. Is something to listen. For because. I know youve been on. This in the thread as you know and that is that and im a long lost medical man you because youre new at the listening to some of this in the list that unless youre not this money just the most good trait that im one of the boys young theyve not done us for monday maybe i mean theres a good 3030 years now but i did take the money that was there but they missed back the isleys are now this years money to say clinton was good live in the us this combustibles 6 that one of the dumbest who does this is the business and there are those who believes. Its time to take action and to share this experience with other Indigenous Peoples. Representative of the. One carlos presents the manifesto to the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples organized by the boat. State. In addition to the indian populations this forum includes academics n. G. O. S and government members. Of the Foreign School 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. One carlos. Urges communities to organize to preserve their autonomy and resist mining and tourism projects. I mean. Out because one top area. Companies idea in. The face 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 hes 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 is really here. On the. Ground say you better say no step. In no start ok no way. No when is it going to as you can. And you. Can receive this is beginning to. See from. I love this one could look at whatever killed. Him is on either brazil get open a business this year is the opposite weve got them that are beating the bulls is going to be in the snow is that the idea gotten for them i see on t. V. And they went in a limb but is. This dog and i forgot the victim were going to who are 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 4 repeats to supervise their guests 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 wanted to talk to you about the one. Person go out of ignoring case yes 16000000000 us i would say 20 percent of colombias 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 claim in the corn 3 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 call on the us of a fate our ships were trying to solve our problems were 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 through when these are put into question and its 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 theres not a lot of public discussion of these cases not i dont like why i have i call them in the newspaper and i try to open their bait but the only thing i got from them was about her money and ignorance thats because its embarrassing to the trade department to see these treaties that they negotiated. Used against the country if youre 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. Lets look sick in the next that dodge i may do so i dont see until the deal you know could be divinely kid because its us you know i think you dislike democrats a 50 year old. 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