Articles in English
SSRN | 1ro-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.
Embassy | 1ro-oct-2015
Canada will likely be left out of a new system proposed by the European Union for settling disputes between countries and corporations—at least for now.
Focus Online | 30-sep-2015
Rankin acted on behalf of an American mining corporation in its successful bid to sue Canada using NAFTA.
Bretton Woods Project | 30-sep-2015
This briefing finds significant ICSID bias in favour of corporations and commercial interests by analysing ICSID overall and by looking at a specific case brought by a global mining corporation against El Salvador.
Vieuws | 29-sep-2015
The European Commission wants the new Investment Court System (ICS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to be co-financed from the EU budget only, Mauro Petriccione, Deputy Director-General at DG Trade has told MEPs.
Palabras clave:
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
UE
The Argentina Independent | 29-sep-2015
El Salvador is defending itself against a US$301m lawsuit filed after it blocked a mining project to protect the country’s heavy-polluted water supply. The imminent verdict will set a precedent amid a growing trend of companies suing governments when they can’t exploit their natural resources.
Palabras clave:
CAFTA ,
El Salvador ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
medio ambiente ,
minería
Scoop | 28-sep-2015
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s TPP done deal on dairy, and on investor-state disputes
Palabras clave:
agricultura | campesinos | alimentación ,
Canadá ,
CPTPP ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
Nueva Zelandia ,
soberanía | democracia
RT | 26-sep-2015
Campaigners gathered outside a secret court in central London on Friday to protest against a controversial EU-Canada trade deal that will empower corporations to sue the British government.
Tele Sur | 25-sep-2015
Canadians must now counter Chevron’s inevitable propaganda campaign as the legal battle continues.
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.
Palabras clave:
Canadá ,
CPTPP ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
TLCAN | T-MEC ,
trabajo | derechos laborales
