investment | bilateral investment treaties
11-Aug-2021
AFTINET
Pakistan decided to review the entire BIT situation in 2013, and to develop a new model BIT.
9-Aug-2021
Business Recorder
The Board of Investment (BoI) is all set to sign treaties with foreign countries in line with the new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) template, which was approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan last week, sources said.
9-Aug-2021
East Asia Forum
Human rights experts are particularly concerned about the asymmetric nature of the system and a lack of investors’ human rights obligations. Together with high ISDS costs and arbitral awards, they undermine states’ ability to realise economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.
5-Aug-2021
The Express Tribune
Decision aimed at avoiding international arbitration with foreign firms .
3-Aug-2021
The National
A CAMPAIGN group backing independence in Western Sahara is to take the UK Government to court over a post-Brexit trade agreement with Morocco.
29-Jul-2021
Xinhua Net
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Saturday three agreements on bilateral cooperation after a meeting between the two heads of state in Goma.
27-Jul-2021
The Hindu Businessline
India and the EU are likely to begin negotiations on the revamped proposal for a bilateral FTA in September but there continues to be disagreement on whether to carve out separate agreements on investment protection and geographical indications (GIs).
16-Jul-2021
Hindustan Times
The conditions have been listed in a draft report prepared by foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament.
15-Jul-2021
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians.
15-Jul-2021
SOMO
The recent tit-for-tat sanctions between the EU and China have cast a shadow over the deal’s future and frozen talks for the time being. But if the agreement reaches the finish line, what is at stake?