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Counter Punch | 3-Sep-2015
Over 90 percent of El Salvador’s surface water is contaminated with industrial chemicals, making it unsuitable to drink even if the water is boiled, chlorinated or filtered beforehand. A new action plan for passing a nationwide ban has begun to unfold, as Salvadorans await the outcome of the Pacific Rime ICSID case.
El Diario | 3-Sep-2015
Los principales objetivos del acuerdo son la eliminación de las barreras no arancelarias, la compatibilización de normativas (la convergencia reguladora) y la generación de normas comunes destinadas a facilitar el comercio de bienes y sobre todo de servicios y de inversiones, así como a proteger a los inversores
News Nation | 1-Sep-2015
The amendment to Arbitration Act will be taken up in the forthcoming Parliament session. The amended act would be on par with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) system.
Financial Express | 29-Aug-2015
The government is looking to replace the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (BIPPA) with a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT),
Holding Redlich | 28-Aug-2015
Changes to Australian food labelling laws provide consumers with an increased understanding of the origin of their food. The challenge Australia faces is to ensure compliance with foreign investment trade agreements.
FT Alphaville | 26-Aug-2015
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, discusses TPP.
South Centre | 26-Aug-2015
The brief reviews Ecuador’s experience with investment treaties and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The paper explains the historical and geopolitical context of the decisions Ecuador has taken in regard to bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and ISDS.
Medium | 26-Aug-2015
A number of chapters of the TPP will affect the creative artists, cultural industries and internet freedom — including intellectual property, investment, and electronic commerce.
Jeune Afrique | 24-Aug-2015
Pursuant to the ruling of an Irish court, Airbus A320 of Congo Airways, RDC’s new national airline company, is blocked at Dublin airport. The Congolese authorities are not excluding the hypothesis of “vulture fund subterfuge”.
Jeune Afrique | 24-Aug-2015
La juridiction irlandaise a été saisie le 19 août par la société américaine Miminco LLC et par deux Américains. En cause : une créance d’État impayée de 10 millions d’euros à la suite d’une procédure arbitrale devant le CIRDI.
