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Join Indigenous leaders, community advocates, and other legal and policy experts to discuss a new report on the harm neocolonial trade deals have inflicted on Latin America.

Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) – a mechanism in trade deals that empowers corporations to sue governments over public interest policies – continues to punish and systematically exclude frontline communities. This system has dire implications for human rights, environmental protection, and corporate accountability efforts.

Schedule:

2:00: Opening remarks about the report by Iza Camarillo

2:15: Panel: Corporate Colonialism: How U.S. Corporations Profit From Indigenous Rights Abuses in the Americas, with Carla Garcia Zendejas, Venessa Cardenas, and Donald Moncayo

3:00: Panel: How Thousands of Trade Deals Protect Corporate Polluters, with Luisa Connor, Consuelo Piaguage, Donald Moncayo, and Carla García Zendejas

3:45: Screening of CCSI Documentary: The Tribunal, discussion led by Ladan Mehranvar

4:30: Panel: From Protest to Policy: Winning the Global Fight Against ISDS, with Melinda St. Louis and Ladan Mehranvar

5:00: Closing remarks for the event given by Carla Garcia Zendejas

Featuring:

• Honduran Black-English, Afro-Indigenous community leaders Luisa Connor and Venessa Cárdenas.
• Ecuadorian defenders of human rights and the Amazon Donald Moncayo and Siekopai youth leader Consuelo Piaguage.
• Other experts from Public Citizen, the Center for International Environmental Law, Amazon Watch, and Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
• A screening of The Tribunal, a short film produced by Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.