ISDS Case Map
health
The Ecuadorean government is being forced to use money that could go toward relief efforts to instead pay off a multinational oil company.
Signing the TPP has provoked a debate on whether, when it comes into force, there will be a potential spike in medicines prices.
Private arbitral tribunals will be able to impose multi-million fines on States whose parliaments have dared to legislate without taking into account corporate expectations.
The liberalization of health care under the ASEAN Economic Community is clearly biased toward curative services as being more profitable than health promotion.
India has given private assurances that it will not grant licences allowing local firms to override patents and make cheap copies of drugs by big Western drugmakers.
"The battle to prevent this trade agreement from being implemented is far from over", asserts the humanitarian organization, joining the rejection that the treaty Chile signed in New Zealand arouses.
Business secretary refuses to disclose advice that could show how private health firms might sue government under US-Europe trade deal.
The inclusion of an ISDS in an EU agreement could raise the likelihood of such cases being brought against all kinds of public interest and health protecting policies in the future.
I only wish to caution that we should be wary of anyone who suggests that the decision demonstrates that ISDS isn't problematic.
Philip Morris is dragging countries with tight tobacco regulations into costly legal battles.
