Business & Human Rights Resource Centre | 12-Sep-2022
Now the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer in the headlines in many parts of the world, the risk corporations will use investment treaties to claim compensation from governments to cover their losses during these exceptional times is increasing.
ISDS in Latin America is here to stay. While disputes in sectors such as pensions and telecoms are becoming more common in the region, we expect to see a ripening of COVID-related, tech and energy disputes.
Les discussions sur une décision sur les ADPIC en lien avec la Covid-19 et visant à accélérer la production et la distribution équitable de vaccins et de médicaments se poursuivent mais les accords d’investissement en sont absents.
Talks on a possible COVID-19-related TRIPS decision aimed at scaling up vaccine and therapeutics production and equitable distribution continue but investment agreements are absent from them.
Deux sociétés aéroportuaires françaises, Aéroports de Paris (ADP) et Vinci Airports, ont engagé une procédure d’arbitrage contre le Chili, en invoquant le traité bilatéral d’investissement (TBI) Chili-France.
Tackling trade and investment agreements must be an essential step in achieving justice-oriented action on climate change, health inequities and economic injustice.
ADP y Vinci recurrieron al CIADI para resolver su disputa con Chile sobre la disminución del tráfico aéreo y de las actividades comerciales, así como el perjuicio que les habrían causado las restricciones sanitarias, producto del Covid-19.
Two French airport companies, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) and Vinci Airports, have initiated treaty-based arbitration proceedings against Chile, invoking the Chile-France bilateral investment treaty (BIT).