Climate Change
The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities
Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign investors to sue governments for billions. A new report highlights this international legal system harms Indigenous Latin Americans.
In the early 2000s, the Peruvian government granted a Canadian silver mining company a license to begin exploratory operations in Indigenous Aymara territories. The project divided communities, with some worrying about potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems they relied on for sustenance and with which their culture was entwined.
The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities