ISDS Case Map
investment | BITs
investment | bilateral investment treaties
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.
South Korea and China are set to hold a fresh round of follow-up negotiations on service and investment under their bilateral free trade agreement.
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed a decree ratifying international agreements with Serbia on investment protection and economic cooperation.
What makes this BIT remarkable is how it is being forced through despite clear constitutional text and two recent referenda rejecting ISDS.
The submission recommends that Bilateral Investment agreements with Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Lithuania and Romania should be terminated without sunset clauses, which preserve existing investor rights to sue after agreements are terminated.
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a bilateral agreement with Myanmar’s junta to promote and protect bilateral investments, further deepening ties between the two regimes across the military, economic and political fronts.
Honduran and international civil society organizations that defend individual and collective human rights reject the new Honduran government’s decision to rejoin the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
As part of a trade deal reached on July 22, Japan agreed to commit $550 billion to critical industries and technologies in the United States, in exchange for lower tariffs on Japanese automobiles and other products.
In the area of investment, the two governments intend to negotiate a Bilateral Investment Treaty, signalling readiness to begin formal discussions toward a treaty aimed at promoting and protecting cross-border investment.
