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An apparent Chevron whistleblower has sent Amazon Watch dozens of internal company videos showing Chevron employees and consultants manipulating evidence linked to the oil giant's extensive contamination - and legal dispute - in Ecuador.
The finance ministry has drafted a fresh bilateral investment protection treaty that would keep taxation measures and issuance of compulsory licences for intellectual property rights out of the sphere of arbitration while preventing foreign investors to drag India to arbitration for any dispute that has already been settled by the courts.
The leaked investment chapter of the TPP looks very similar to the 2012 US Model BIT, with a few notable additions and changes to the text.
In many cases, international investment agreements have the purpose and/or effect of hijacking the international human rights system.
Resistance is mounting against the booming and lucrative business of multinational companies suing governments.
Cairn Energy Plc's demand for compensation from India for the Rs 10,200 crore tax notice slapped on Cairn India earlier this month under the ambit of the India-UK Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) has divided those in the government and those outside it.
According to sources ay India's Central Board of Direct Taxes, tax matters are not covered under UK-India bilateral Investment treaty (BIT).
This April 17th 2015, La Via Campesina will focus its mobilizations on the impacts of Transnational Corporations and Free Trade Agreements on peasant and small-scale agriculture and national food sovereignty
The Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade committee is now accepting public submissions on the NZ-Korea Free Trade Agreement, providing Kiwis with a rare chance to break the silence on the controversial investor-state dispute settlement provisions in that agreement and in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, according to It’s Our Future NZ.
One of the most striking features of the draft model is its jettisoning of the fair and equitable treatment standard in favor of a standard -- egregious or outrageous behaviour -- that hearkens back to legal touchstones of an earlier era.
