IIED | 27-Jun-2015
Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil pueden desempeñar un papel importante representando y fortaleciendo las voces de las comunidades en los procesos de arbitraje, presentando escritos de alegaciones ante tribunales de arbitraje.
La Marea | 26-Jun-2015
En la América Latina de ochenta y noventa, mecanismos similares dieron lugar a decenas de demandas de las multinacionales contra Estados que querían modificar condiciones de los contratos.
Lexology | 26-Jun-2015
While the legal text of the China-Australia FTA (ChAFTA) was signed last week, the investment legal framework will be reviewed within the next three years with a view to commencing negotiations for a comprehensive Investment Chapter to be included in ChAFTA.
TeleSur | 25-Jun-2015
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
Economic Voice | 23-Jun-2015
TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady, will call time on ‘zombie trade deals’, when she addresses the European Commission Trade Policy Day in Brussels today (Tuesday).
Canberra Times | 19-Jun-2015
Remarkably, the Australian government has given Chinese companies a general right to buy resources and other assets in Australia – so-called market access – without getting the same right for Australian companies in China.
Lexology | 19-Jun-2015
A consensus is clearly forming around changes and adjustments needed to reform ISDS, but the main stakeholders – businesses and governments – have yet to make a clear stand, argue Adrian-Catalin Bulboaca and Marius Iliescu
ConsoGlobe | 18-Jun-2015
Suite à la décision du président du Parlement Européen le 10 juin de reporter le vote consultatif des eurodéputés sur le sujet, il faut se rendre à l’évidence : c’est la mobilisation citoyenne qui fait actuellement avancer le dossier.
Página 12 | 17-Jun-2015
Se llama ISDS. Es la cláusula crucial, el corazón del tratado de libre comercio entre Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea, el ITTP (Tratado Transatlántico de Comercio e Inversión), que puso al rojo vivo al Parlamento Europeo esta semana.
Greece Today | 17-Jun-2015
According to SYRIZA, ISDS undermined economic democracy by treating the rights of peoples and their elected representatives as equal to the rights of an economic oligarchy, essentially amounting to an exemption for large multinationals from democratic controls and continuing a conversion of western democracies to states where elections cannot bring about changes to economic policy.