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Libre comercio, soberanía y derechos humanos
Diario Uchile | 24-Aug-2021
La globalización y los procesos de integración económica en América Latina han significado el aumento del poder que las empresas transnacionales ostentan en nuestros países.
keywords: corporate interests , human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America
Des investisseurs français du secteur aéroportuaire mettent à exécution leur menace antérieure d’intenter un recours arbitral contre le Chili, en vertu d’un traité, du fait de la réduction du trafic aérien pendant la pandémie de COVID
IA Reporter | 24-Aug-2021
Deux sociétés aéroportuaires françaises, Aéroports de Paris (ADP) et Vinci Airports, ont engagé une procédure d’arbitrage contre le Chili, en invoquant le traité bilatéral d’investissement (TBI) Chili-France.
keywords: Chile , covid , France , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Death by a thousand treaties
The Ecologist | 20-Aug-2021
Governments must urgently terminate all international investment treaties in force, in particular the Energy Charter Treaty, and stop negotiating new ones.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Vers une nouvelle justice d’exception pour les entreprises européennes ?
Alternatives Economiques | 20-Aug-2021
Les lobbies s’activent pour réinstaurer des mécanismes de justice privée leur permettant d’attaquer les Etats membres en cas de décision nuisant à leurs intérêts.
keywords: EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Blockading global Green New Deals
The Ecologist | 19-Aug-2021
Tackling trade and investment agreements must be an essential step in achieving justice-oriented action on climate change, health inequities and economic injustice.
keywords: climate , covid , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
French airport investors make good on earlier threat to bring treaty-based claims against Chile in relation to reduced air traffic during the COVID pandemic
IA Reporter | 17-Aug-2021
Two French airport companies, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) and Vinci Airports, have initiated treaty-based arbitration proceedings against Chile, invoking the Chile-France bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
keywords: Chile , covid , France , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Pakistan terminating 23 bilateral investment treaties because of ISDS
AFTINET | 11-Aug-2021
Pakistan decided to review the entire BIT situation in 2013, and to develop a new model BIT.
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Pakistan
Risks for Mexico in the renegotiation of its FTA with the European Union
TNI | 11-Aug-2021
To end neoliberalism and defend energy resources, Mexico must step up and avoid at all costs the inclusion of supranational arbitration mechanisms in a renegotiated FTA with the European Union.
keywords: EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico
South’s concerns over ISDS reform process need to be addressed
Third World Network | 10-Aug-2021
The broad mandate given by UNCITRAL focuses on a limited set of procedural issues that fails to address the substantive concerns over the crisis of legitimacy confronting the international investment regime, and ISDS more specifically.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS , UNCITRAL
XL pipeline absurd $15 billion NAFTA ISDS claim
Public Citizen | 7-Aug-2021
TC Energy expects to get 15 times more money, coming from taxpayers’ pockets, than the asset losses it experienced from the revocation of a permit, that was already denied twice.
keywords: audio , Canada , climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US