ISDS Case Map
ICSID
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank)
This article explores the role that Shell – in particular, through its legal department – played in shaping international investment law from 1957 to 1968.
February 2026, ICSID published its report on cases registered in 2025. This report revealed that a record number of cases were filed against states in Sub-Saharan Africa. ICSID’s statistics indicate that 15 cases were registered against these states, constituting almost a quarter of all ICSID cases registered in 2025.
A new multi-organization letter to Petro and his government urges them to take the Santa Marta Conference as an opportunity to reject free trade agreements and investment protects systems that put profiteers over communities.
Members of the “Stop ISDS” campaign express our support for Colombian government’s announcement on March 26, 2026, regarding Colombia’s withdrawal from the investment arbitration regime to protect transnational investors.
Colombia's president has announced that the country will exit the International Investment Arbitration System (ISDS). This comes in the wake of an ongoing effort against ISDS and for the exit of countries in the Global South from these mechanisms.
President Gustavo Petro said that Colombia will pull out of investor protection treaties that allow foreign corporations to sue the State over perceived losses before international tribunals.
The dispute goes now to a World Bank body after the abrupt takeover of a gold-processing facility now reportedly controlled by Chinese companies.
The President of the Republic of Honduras today signed the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States, also known as the ICSID Convention.
Orca announced three arbitrations at the CSID: one under the Mauritius–Tanzania Bilateral Investment Treaty, and two under the PSA and GA. The claims-valued at roughly US$1.2 billion-allege Tanzania failed to extend the development licence, prolonged the “Protected Gas” regime beyond its contractual term.
