Articles in English
Global Times | 2-Dec-2025
The new Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments formally came into effect.
The Guardian | 1-Dec-2025
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts
The Nation | 28-Nov-2025
Kingsgate ends 8-year dispute with the Thai government over Akara Gold Mine. Arbitration process now concluding, with future business operations in Thailand in focus.
EJIL: Talk! | 28-Nov-2025
One of the most notable proposals identifies an investor’s initiation of arbitration as implied consent to a tribunal’s jurisdiction over counterclaims.
Foreign Policy In Focus | 26-Nov-2025
Miami-based investors are suing Honduras after their own false promises left families picking up the pieces.
Trade Justice Movement | 26-Nov-2025
The resource contains visual summaries to help break down the controversial Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism built into many trade and investment agreements.
AFTINET | 26-Nov-2025
As the UN climate conference began in Belem, Brazil last week, an official UN report explicitly called out Investor-State Dispute Settlement in trade agreements as a systemic barrier to financing climate action in developing countries.
Both Ends | 26-Nov-2025
COP30 showed once again that climate policy cannot succeed while outdated investment treaties give corporations the power to punish ambition.
The Korea Times | 25-Nov-2025
The justice ministry has sent a letter to Lone Star requesting the private equity fund to reimburse legal costs incurred during an investor-state dispute settlement over the 2012 sale of a local bank.
ISDS impacts | 24-Nov-2025
The YPF case exposes the inconsistencies of the international investment protection system, which enables large corporations to engage in predatory practices, creating severe macroeconomic problems for Argentina.
