Actualités
Mondaq | 9-jan-2014
The SADC protocol on investment provides rights to investors, including investor-state dispute settlement provisions, in southern Africa no matter what country they hail from. Thus, it goes way beyond typical bilateral investment treaties (BITs) while protecting foreign companies operating in SADC countries without BIT coverage.
Mots-clés:
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
SADC
FTA Watch | 8-jan-2014
A five-minute video from FTA Watch (Thailand)
A Canadian court is allowing Ecuadorians to pursue their long-running pollution suit against Chevron
Public Radio International | 4-jan-2014
Last month, a judge ruled that the Ecuadorians can pursue their case against Chevron in Canada.
Wall St Journal | 4-jan-2014
An international arbitration tribunal in The Hague hearing a claim from Chevron Corp. against Ecuador pushed back a scheduled hearing to Feb. 7 from Jan. 20 and called on both parties to meet in Washington on Jan. 20 instead.
The Hindu Business Line | 2-jan-2014
In the last couple of years, South Africa has become the unlikely champion of the anti-BIT movement.
| 28-déc-2013
A shareholder from the United Kingdom of the company Progas Pakistan has initiated international arbitration proceedings of $573 million against Pakistan for alleged expropriation of its LPG infrastructure in Karachi and the government has decided to vigorously contest the case.
Mots-clés:
CIRDI ,
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
énergie ,
investissement | TBI ,
Pakistan ,
ressources naturelles ,
Royaume uni
Democracy Now | 28-déc-2013
A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest.
Mots-clés:
Canada ,
différends investisseurs-état | ISDS,
environnement,
Équateur ,
États-Unis d’Amérique
Tlaxcala | 27-déc-2013
Over 100 civil society groups and social movements from Europe and the USA have signed on an open letter that was sent to the chief negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to voice one joint demand : to exclude any Investor-state Dispute Settlement mechanism from the TTIP
Le Monde Diplomatique | 20-déc-2013
Iniciadas en 2008, las discusiones sobre el acuerdo de libre comercio entre Canadá y la Unión Europea culminaron el pasado 18 de octubre. Un buen presagio para Estados Unidos, que espera concluir una asociación de este tipo con el Viejo Continente. Proyecto que, de concretarse, someterá a los Estados a las normas del liberalismo.
Amigos de la Tierra | 19-déc-2013
Amigos de la Tierra alerta de que los inversores podrían tener más poder que gobiernos e instituciones democráticamente elegidos.
