Canadian Mining Company Infinito Gold Seeks to Extort $1 Billion from Costa Rica

MiningWatch, Canada

Thursday, October 10, 2013 As organizations in Canada and Quebec, we are appalled that Calgary-based Infinito Gold has decided to sue the Government of Costa Rica for $1-billion under the Canada-Costa Rica bilateral investment treaty. This is just the latest●●●

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Historic call from Ecuador and numerous Nation States for the United Nations to implement binding regulations on Transnational Corporations

Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity

     Over 100 social movements and civil society organizations representing hundreds of thousands workers, peasants, community and indigenous peoples have welcomed the historic call by nine countries together with the African and Arab Groups for binding obligations on Transnational●●●

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Statement to the Human Rights Council in support of the initiative of a group of States for a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations

September 13, 2013

The operations of many Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises  cause the devastation of livelihoods, territories and the environment of the communities where they operate; they pursue the commodification of essential services and of nature itself. Many TNCs and●●●

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