ISDS Case Map
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Swiss trader Glencore filed for arbitration against the Bolivian government for the expropriation of its mining and smelting assets, adding to a series of lawsuits against the Andean country.
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
Similar to the TPP, this trade agreement will institutionalise inequalities;it will severely curtail peoples’ rights and freedoms and cement corporate rights over national public interest law and the right of governments to govern in the interests of their constituents.
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has completed hearing on a dispute between Government of Pakistan and a Turkish firm M/s Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim A.S.
Philip Morris International sent a letter to the government of Togo. It outlined how plain packaging would violate binding global and regional agreements. Togo was in no position to anger its international partners, it suggested.
Peter Allard, a Canadian investor who owns a nature sanctuary in Barbados, has brought an ISDS claim against Barbados. He grounds his claim on the failure of the government to enforce its own environmental law.
95 civil society organisations strongly and publicly urge countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to reject ISDS in the agreement.
When the KorUS FTA was negotiated from 2006, the Korean Supreme Court delivered its opinion against ISDS to the Korean government twice in 2006 and 2007.
India is again in the limelight of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). An international tribunal has penalised the country earlier this week with a monetary compensation estimated at one billion dollars.
RCEP trade ministers will meet in Laos on August 5 to try and resolve issues that are stuck in negotiations.
