News from the movements
bilaterals.org | 3-Oct-2025
Between July 14 and 17, in the city of Choluteca (Honduras), more than 60 people from 20 local communities and representatives of national and international social movements gathered for the “Meeting of communities affected by energy projects in southern Honduras - Without human rights, there is no energy sovereignty.”
CCPA | 2-Oct-2025
Free trade deal is a gift to mining and fossil fuel companies but sidelines human rights and industrial development.
The Guardian | 1-Oct-2025
The billionaire’s last three cases are part of a growing global list from fossil fuel companies against government decisions to reduce carbon emissions.
AFTINET | 1-Oct-2025
With COP30 in Brazil around the corner and with the prospect of Australia co-hosting COP31 next year, a major threat to effective climate action continues to fly under the radar: Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms in trade and investment agreements.
Common Frontiers | 30-Sep-2025
Tens of thousands of people took to the street in a nationwide strike opposing various Canadian-owned mining projects while the Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement could be tabled any day now.
Linkedin | 24-Sep-2025
These cases can cost countries (or rather, taxpayers) billions — even when decisions were taken democratically to protect people, the environment, or national security.
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investor-state disputes | ISDS
Transnational Institute | 22-Sep-2025
Para comprender las implicancias del RIGI es necesario situarlo en el marco jurídico de protección de las inversiones construido desde los años noventa. Los Tratados Bilaterales de Inversión (TBI) que Argentina firmó con 54 países desde los años noventa otorgaban protecciones significativas al capital extranjero: estabilidad jurídica, acceso a arbitraje internacional, protección contra expropiaciones, trato nacional, trato justo y equitativo, entre otros privilegios.
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Argentina ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Ecologistas en Acción | 17-Sep-2025
Amigas de la Tierra, Ecologistas en Acción y el Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL) se unen a varias plataformas europeas para demandar el fin del mecanismo de solución de controversias entre inversores y Estados, un sistema que socava la acción democrática de los gobiernos y obstaculiza la urgente transición ecológica.
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ECT ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Institut Veblen | 4-Sep-2025
L’Etat français est attaqué par deux sociétés russes d’investissement (contrôlées par un oligarque sous sanction) dans le cadre du mégaprojet minier « Montagne d’Or » en Guyane.
Veblen Institute | 4-Sep-2025
The French state is being sued by two Russian investment companies (controlled by a sanctioned oligarch), in connection with the “Montagne d’Or” mining megaproject in French Guiana.
