ISDS Case Map
health
The tobacco industry has a long history of using international trade deals to force their products into new markets.
These practises open the door to Big Pharma companies and disastrous private health companies.
Rather than enhancing public health protection the USMCA places new, extended, and enforceable obligations on public regulators that increase the power of corporate interests during the development of new regulations.
The Jeju provincial government has revoked the business license of a Chinese-owned for-profit hospital. The Chinese group may file a suit against the Korean government, using the investor-state dispute settlement system.
African governments must act immediately to address the AfCFTA's potential negative implications for Africans' health.
Philip Morris, a US company, moved ownership of its Australian operations to Hong Kong to take advantage of ISDS in an Australia-Hong Kong investment treaty.
It has taken a second FOI case and another two years to reveal that Australian taxpayers were only awarded half of the costs of defending Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws against tobacco giant Philip Morris in March 2017.
Free trade agreements like the RCEP will infringe on India’s intellectual property laws. India must stand its ground in the interest of public health.
The UK should accept American meat as part of a post-Brexit trade deal, says US ambassador to the UK .
The Korea government may face another investor-state dispute case from the Chinese capital if the license is called off.
