Actualités
Africa is a country | 4-aoû-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-aoû-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...
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Zimbabwe ,
Allemagne ,
droits humains ,
foncier ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS,
peuples indigènes ,
Royaume uni ,
Suisse
El Espectador | 3-aoû-2018
Odebrecht vuelve a ser noticia, no por un nuevo escándalo de corrupción sino por una millonaria demanda que interpuso contra el Estado por $3.8 billones de pesos.
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Colombie ,
litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS
Manila Times | 3-aoû-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-aoû-2018
This is the fourth ISDS dispute this year in which the South Korean government is embroiled.
Brookings Institution | 1er-aoû-2018
India’s Model BIT is "pro-state with limited rights to foreign investors" according to the US thinktank Brookings
FTDES | 1er-aoû-2018
Dans le cadre des négociations de l’ALECA, l’Union Européenne a proposé à la Tunisie de mettre en place un mécanisme d’arbitrage entre investisseurs et Etat, sous l’appellation « système judiciaire pour l’investissement » (Investment Court System ou ICS en anglais). Nous interpellons la société civile et les pouvoirs publics pour qu’il soit catégoriquement refusé.
CIAR Global | 30-jui-2018
En un documento de la CE se ratifica la incompatibilidad del arbitraje inversor-Estado con su legislación cuando se trata de inversiones intracomunitarias, así como la aplicación del Tratado de la Carta de la Energía y el rechazo a los TBI entre Estados miembros.
East African | 30-jui-2018
Civil society organisations are pushing for a review of the BIT between Tanzania and The Netherlands which they say does not serve the best interests of Tanzania.
AFTINET | 30-jui-2018
“AFTINET will present evidence today to a Senate inquiry that the TPP-11 increases corporate rights at the expense of people’s rights and the environment and should not be implemented,” AFTINET Convener Dr Patricia Ranald said today.
