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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:

A screening of The Tribunal, a short film produced by Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.

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.