Actualités
ITN | 9-mai-2007
Investment Treaty News has learned that Bolivia has sent a formal notice to the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) declaring its withdrawal from the ICSID convention.
IPS | 4-mai-2007
How the World Bank’s investment court, free trade agreements, and bilateral investment treaties have unleashed a new era of corporate power and what to do about tt
FPIF | 3-mai-2007
When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office in January 2006, he pledged to follow through on his campaign pledge to increase Bolivians’ share of revenues from their major source of foreign income, natural gas. International gas companies, however, threatened to sue. Previous Bolivian governments had signed a flurry of bilateral investment treaties that gave foreign investors the right to bypass domestic courts and file such lawsuits through international tribunals. Morales complained that these rules made him feel like a “prisoner” in the presidential palace.
Mots-clés:
Argentine ,
Bolivie ,
Canada ,
CIRDI ,
Équateur ,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
intérêts corporatifs ,
investissement | TBI ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS
| 2-mai-2007
Bolivia and Venezuela, both nationalizing huge swathes of their economies, should quit a World Bank body that arbitrates between foreign investors and states, Bolivia’s president said on Sunday.
| 20-avr-2007
La mayoría demócrata en el Congreso de EE. UU. exige la renegociación de TLC en curso
Mots-clés:
Costa Rica ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS
Australia National University | 16-avr-2007
Peter Drahos looks at the issue of dispute settlement in the gowing web of US bilateral free trade agreements, how this relates to the WTO’s dispute settlement system and the implications for developing countries.
| 9-avr-2007
Global Gold mining company submitted its claim to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a body adjunct to the World Bank, against the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA). The Company is trying to protect its investment rights in arbitration court.
Mots-clés:
Arménie ,
CIRDI ,
États-Unis d’Amérique ,
investissement | TBI ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS,
mines
| 30-mar-2007
Pittsburgh-based Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has hired former US trade agreement negotiator, Regina Vargo, and filed suit against the Guatemalan government under the investor-state provisions within Chapter 10 of CAFTA.
Moneyweb | 30-mar-2007
Finstone Ltd SA, a foreign mining company based in Luxembourg, is suing the South African government for an alleged expropriation of its mineral rights. Finstone is a holding company in control of three South African granite producing operations i.e. Marlin, Red Graniti and Kelgran. The real challenge posed by this legal action is that the abovementioned investors find the black economic empowerment programme is in violation of the bilateral treaties signed with South Africa by both Luxembourg and Italy.
Multimedios del Cariba | 29-mar-2007
Acicateado por la entrada en vigencia del dr-cafta, parece llegado el turno a las demandas financieras derivadas de compromisos asumidos por el estado mediante contratos con empresas extranjeras
