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TeleSur | 25-Jun-2015
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
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Canada ,
CPTPP ,
El Salvador ,
ICSID ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
TTIP
Economic Voice | 23-Jun-2015
TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady, will call time on ‘zombie trade deals’, when she addresses the European Commission Trade Policy Day in Brussels today (Tuesday).
Canberra Times | 19-Jun-2015
Remarkably, the Australian government has given Chinese companies a general right to buy resources and other assets in Australia – so-called market access – without getting the same right for Australian companies in China.
Lexology | 19-Jun-2015
A consensus is clearly forming around changes and adjustments needed to reform ISDS, but the main stakeholders – businesses and governments – have yet to make a clear stand, argue Adrian-Catalin Bulboaca and Marius Iliescu
ConsoGlobe | 18-Jun-2015
Suite à la décision du président du Parlement Européen le 10 juin de reporter le vote consultatif des eurodéputés sur le sujet, il faut se rendre à l’évidence : c’est la mobilisation citoyenne qui fait actuellement avancer le dossier.
Página 12 | 17-Jun-2015
Se llama ISDS. Es la cláusula crucial, el corazón del tratado de libre comercio entre Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea, el ITTP (Tratado Transatlántico de Comercio e Inversión), que puso al rojo vivo al Parlamento Europeo esta semana.
Greece Today | 17-Jun-2015
According to SYRIZA, ISDS undermined economic democracy by treating the rights of peoples and their elected representatives as equal to the rights of an economic oligarchy, essentially amounting to an exemption for large multinationals from democratic controls and continuing a conversion of western democracies to states where elections cannot bring about changes to economic policy.
AFP | 10-Jun-2015
Le Parlement européen a fini par reporter mercredi son vote sur l’accord de libre-échange en tractation avec les États-Unis, après s’être divisé sur la feuille de route à adresser aux négociateurs concernant les très controversés tribunaux d’arbitrage.
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investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
TTIP
The Guardian | 10-Jun-2015
Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders say it has got dangerously out of control
rabble.ca | 9-Jun-2015
What do we call it when Ottawa signs a deal with an unelected regime that would prevent any future elected government in a small African nation from changing its laws regulating Canadian-owned mines for almost two decades?
