Articles in English
CCSI | 10-ago-2018
As states look back over decades of treaty practice, the expected benefits have not clearly materialized, whereas the costs have been unexpectedly high.
Palabras clave:
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
| 10-ago-2018
The Guardian | 8-ago-2018
US energy company is seeking $350m in compensation in so-called ISDS case over gas turbines in Pilbara.
IISD | 8-ago-2018
Facing multimillion dollar claims, many Latin American states have become critical of investment arbitration. A group of researchers building a database of legal and policy tools aims to change this.
ICSID | 7-ago-2018
The United Mexican States deposited its Instrument of Ratification of the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States with the World Bank.
Africa is a country | 4-ago-2018
Zimbabwe is still seeking to have annulled two Awards issued by a tribunal of the ICSID. The disputes concern the government’s expropriation of timber plantations which were first established by Rhodes’ BSAC.
Expropriate | 4-ago-2018
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
Palabras clave:
Alemania ,
derechos humanos ,
Gran Bretaña ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
pueblos indígenas ,
Suiza ,
tierra ,
Zimbabwe
Manila Times | 3-ago-2018
Labor unions and workers’ rights advocates fear that the secretive RCEP agreement will further erode workers’ rights in the Asian region, while strengthening the hands of investors who may be able to sue governments for changing laws such as setting minimum wages, that would erode their profitability.
Hankyoreh | 2-ago-2018
This is the fourth ISDS dispute this year in which the South Korean government is embroiled.
Brookings Institution | 1ro-ago-2018
India’s Model BIT is "pro-state with limited rights to foreign investors" according to the US thinktank Brookings
