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Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions
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
keywords: climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Russia , UK
Comment l’arbitrage d’investissement se mue en entrave aux politiques publiques
Le Vif | 1-Dec-2025
Pour protéger leurs investissements, des sociétés se retournent contre des Etats jusqu’à entraver leur action, notamment en faveur du climat. L’arbitrage d’investissement est-il dévoyé?
keywords: Honduras , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Bupa: El grupo británico detrás de isapre Cruz Blanca que desafía al Estado chileno
EMOL | 30-Nov-2025
El pasado 21 de noviembre, la británica Bupa -controladora de isapre Cruz Blanca- decidió abrir una disputa legal en contra del Estado de Chile ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones (Ciadi), bajo el tratado comercial con Reino Unido.
keywords: Chile , health , investor-state disputes | ISDS , UK
Kingsgate announces settlement of dispute with Thai government, ending ‘Akara Gold Mine’ case
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.
keywords: Australia , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Thailand
Reassessing consent in counterclaims: rebalancing investment protection and public interest under the UNCITRAL ISDS reform
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.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , UNCITRAL
Castaños de Choloma: Inversionistas demandan al Estado mientras residentes denuncian fraude
Criterio | 27-Nov-2025
En medio de denuncias de fraude por parte de residentes de Castaños de Choloma, en Honduras, los inversionistas involucrados en la construcción de la residencial inundada tras el paso de las tormentas Eta y Iota, juan Carlos y Ernesto Argüello, demandan al Estado de Honduras ante el CIADI por 100 millones de dólares, más dos millones de dólares en "daños morales", bajo el CAFTA-DR.
keywords: Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Panama , services , US
US-backed housing scandals threaten to rip off Honduras and Panama
Foreign Policy In Focus | 26-Nov-2025
Miami-based investors are suing Honduras after their own false promises left families picking up the pieces.
keywords: Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Panama , services , US
ISDS overview: how corporate courts threaten climate action and democracy
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.
keywords: climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS , UK
ISDS exposed as a barrier to climate action and Australia to chair but not host 2026 climate negotiations
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.
keywords: Australia , climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS
COP30 shows why dismantling ISDS is essential for real climate action
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.
keywords: climate , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS