ISDS Case Map
ICSID
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank)
In its introduction the book explains how international financial institutions act like tailors charged with fitting out transnationals with tailor-made suits.
Foreign companies operating in South Africa that have lost production and ultimately profit as a result of the power supply crisis might be able to sue the government under bilateral investment treaties
More than 800 citizens groups from 59 countries on every continent presented a petition on Tuesday, January 15 to World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, expressing concerns about the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), whose Administrative Council Mr. Zoellick chairs.
The World Bank has dismissed the claim for compensation from the Philippine government over the Naia Terminal 3 project of Germany's Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide (Fraport)
A Free State farmer who had farms in Zimbabwe repossessed is taking SA's government to court to try to force it to ratify a treaty designed to protect South African investments abroad.
A little known entity closely affiliated with the World Bank that mediates disputes between sovereign nations and foreign investors appears to be skewed toward corporations in Northern countries, according to an IPS review of pending cases and other independent analyses of the tribunals.
Ecuador is furiously lobbying members of Congress to extend trade preferences, set to run out at the end of the month, that are intended to counter narcotics trafficking.
A recently spawned legal battle between Slovakia and Madeta, the Czech Republic's largest dairy processor, has led to a discovery that, for the past 10 years, Slovakia has not honored a trade agreement signed between the countries during the Velvet Divorce.
Investment Treaty News has learned that Bolivia has sent a formal notice to the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) declaring its withdrawal from the ICSID convention.
How the World Bank's investment court, free trade agreements, and bilateral investment treaties have unleashed a new era of corporate power and what to do about tt
