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Canada re-opens investment talks with India
Embassy | 17-Feb-2016
Canada’s government has officially re-opened negotiations with India over a bilateral investment treaty the two sides nearly agreed upon almost a decade ago.
keywords: Canada , India , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS
Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran sign a bilateral investment agreement
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | 16-Feb-2016
The Agreement stipulates rules for investment protection and the development of an investment environment.
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Iran , Japan , natural resources
TPP may bankrupt Indonesia, activists say
The Jakarta Post | 16-Feb-2016
Indonesia could fall into bankruptcy if the biggest market in Southeast Asia join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would allow investors to sue the government.
keywords: CPTPP , Indonesia , investor-state disputes | ISDS
US-EU trade will undermine ’tax justice,’ says report
Tele Sur | 16-Feb-2016
The secretive TTIP could make it easier than ever for big business to sue governments, according to new research.
keywords: EU , finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS , TTIP , US
The zombie ISDS
S2B | 15-Feb-2016
Rebranded as ICS, rights for corporations to sue states refuse to die.
keywords: EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS
Conciliation and arbitration law: Times of change in investment protection in Bolivia
IISD | 15-Feb-2016
Bolivia’s experience has shown that attracting foreign investment does not by itself generate the expected development for host states and that, rather, it consists in a mechanism for financing and transferring resources from the South to the North.
keywords: Bolivia , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS
Negotiations kick off on a binding treaty on business and human rights
IISD | 15-Feb-2016
The UNGPs set out a three-pillar framework: the state duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and access to remedy for victims of business-related abuses.
keywords: human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS
Chile: Las críticas al TPP y la respuesta de la sociedad civil a Heraldo Muñoz
The Clinic | 12-Feb-2016
El domingo pasado el canciller, Heraldo Muñoz, tras firmar el Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico, que debe ser ratificado por el Parlamento, argumentó que las críticas se debían a desinformación. La organización civil, Chile mejor sin TPP, responde al secretario de Estado y refuta sus afirmaciones sobre los beneficios que traerá para el país el cuestionado acuerdo comercial.
keywords: Chile , CPTPP , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines
Perú: Usan el TLC para exigir pago de bonos agrarios
Diario UNO | 12-Feb-2016
Fondos de inversión como Gramercy Funds Management, presionan al Perú para cobrar bonos agrarios en soles de los años 60, por más de mil millones de dólares.
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Peru
El TPP: la verdad entre bastidores
El Dínamo | 12-Feb-2016
Chile lo firmó en Nueva Zelanda la semana pasada. Con ello la polémica se abre y amenaza ser una bola de fuego. Para unos es la ignominia, para otros, la salvación, como lo ha dicho la Cancillería chilena. 
keywords: Chile , CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS