CPTPP
The Star | 2-oct-2015
What little we know about the Harper government’s many international trade deals is cause for grave concern.
SSRN | 1er-oct-2015
Despite the deep irony of free trade agreements being subverted to codify and extend anti-competitive monopoly rights the joining of enhanced intellectual property rights (IPRs) and strengthened investor rights is creating a wild-west opportunity for unbounded corporate power.
rabble.ca | 23-sep-2015
For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to address some of the deal’s most damaging features : for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent-wide strategy for auto investment and production.
| 23-sep-2015
Under a Trans Pacific Partnership deal, foreign investors in New Zealand could be able to take international legal action against a government decision such as that which rejected a Chinese company’s bid for Lochinver Station, says an Auckland Law School senior lecturer.
SUNS | 23-sep-2015
Particular issues and procedures in investment treaties have proved especially contentious at both conceptual and practical levels.
SUNS | 23-sep-2015
Two recent proposals on settling investment disputes have begun to attract attention and consideration in national and international circles.
GetUp ! | 18-sep-2015
Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), multinational corporations will be able to sue the Australian Government in secret corporate courts over laws that protect our health, environment and workers’ rights.
Biodiversidad en América latina | 14-sep-2015
Los presidentes de Chile, México y Perú recibieron una carta pública por las negociaciones secretas en torno al Tratado de Asociación Transpacífica (TPP) y sus implicancias para el futuro de los consumidores.
Green Agenda | 11-sep-2015
There has been an explosive increase of cases of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Modern investor-state disputes often revolve around public policy measures and implicate sensitive issues such as health and environmental protection