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Radio Mundo Real | 22-Mar-2007
Terminó el miércoles en Montevideo, capital uruguaya, un encuentro de tres días de duración denominado “Corporaciones versus Estados; los mecanismos de solución de diferencias entre inversores y Estados”, organizado por REDES-Amigos de la Tierra Uruguay y Amigos de la Tierra Internacional
keywords:
corporate interests ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
| 22-Mar-2007
A US company mining gold in Armenia has initiated an international arbitration of its bitter dispute with Environment Minister Vartan Ayvazian whom it accuses of corruption and other violations of the law.
Business Week | 17-Mar-2007
Foreign energy investors said on Friday that they warned the Dominican Republic it had to mend its crippled power sector months before filing a US$680 million (euro510 million) lawsuit against the country for lost electricity revenue.
The New Anatolian | 17-Mar-2007
Dutch investment company Saba Fakes, who claim to hold the biggest part of shares of Turkey’s second big GSM operator Telsim, is preparing to file an arbitration case at International Arbitration amounting to 19 billion dollars in reparations.
| 16-Mar-2007
A siete meses de vigencia del tratado el país centroamericano enfrenta la primera demanda multimillonaria de una transnacional
keywords:
Guatemala ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
| 14-Mar-2007
On the morning of Tuesday, March 13, Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) filed its Notice of Intent to Submit Claims to international arbitration against the Republic of Guatemala under the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
Mining MX | 16-Feb-2007
A foreign mining company is suing the South African government over alleged expropriation of its mineral rights in a move that has huge implications for the country’s new mining dispensation.
FPIF | 18-Dec-2006
The investment rules in the Colombia and Peru trade pacts with the US deserve special scrutiny. They grant protections for private foreign investors that are virtually identical to those in NAFTA, CAFTA and myriad bilateral investment treaties signed over the past two decades. And yet these countries are being pulled on board at a time of a dramatic awakening about these rules’ potential for harm.
Legal Week | 28-Oct-2006
A number of African governments have made efforts to encourage investment in the continent by entering into bilateral investment treaties and adopting arbitration legislation.
keywords:
Egypt ,
ICSID ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Nigeria ,
South Africa ,
UNCITRAL
Easy Bourse | 10-Oct-2006
US-based Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) has dropped a compensation claim against Ecuador’s state oil company Petroecuador in a move that analysts said may strengthen the oil firm’s case against the government.
keywords:
Ecuador ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
