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Farmers block Azura warehouse in France and launch legal action
27-Nov-2025     Western Sahara Resource Watch
Growing pressure on EU–Morocco trade deal as French farmers today launch legal steps and storm Azura’s entry point for Western Sahara produce in Perpignan.
ISDS overview: how corporate courts threaten climate action and democracy
26-Nov-2025     Trade Justice Movement
The resource contains visual summaries to help break down the controversial Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism built into many trade and investment agreements.
ISDS exposed as a barrier to climate action and Australia to chair but not host 2026 climate negotiations
26-Nov-2025     AFTINET
As the UN climate conference began in Belem, Brazil last week, an official UN report explicitly called out Investor-State Dispute Settlement in trade agreements as a systemic barrier to financing climate action in developing countries.
COP30 shows why dismantling ISDS is essential for real climate action
26-Nov-2025     Both Ends
COP30 showed once again that climate policy cannot succeed while outdated investment treaties give corporations the power to punish ambition.
Between national engine and corporate plunder: the drift of Argentina´s Fiscal Oilfields YPF
24-Nov-2025     ISDS impacts
The YPF case exposes the inconsistencies of the international investment protection system, which enables large corporations to engage in predatory practices, creating severe macroeconomic problems for Argentina.
Farmers to mobilise in Strasbourg to request CJEU opinion on EU-Mercosur: European democracy and role of European Parliament must be respected
24-Nov-2025     European Coordination Via Campesina
European farmers will mobilise on 24 November in Strasbourg from 11am in support of an MEP initiative to request a CJEU opinion on the EU-Mercosur FTA.
NGOs call on Government to leave Energy Charter Treaty as new claim emerges
21-Nov-2025     Leah Sullivan
Civil society groups are calling on the Government to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and reject ISDS, as a new threat emerges over the government's refusal to grant an exploration licence to an oil and gas company.
Argentina in the maze of international arbitration: a record number of arbitration claims and new concessions for investors
20-Nov-2025     ISDS impacts
For over 20 years, Argentina had the world’s highest number of investor claims before international arbitration tribunals. It also has the highest number of bilateral investment treaties in force in Latin America and the Caribbean.
EU adopts Digital Trade Agreement with Singapore despite warnings: a setback for digital rights and democratic oversight
20-Nov-2025     EDRi
This decision weakens the Union’s capacity to safeguard privacy, data protection, and accountability over software systems, at a time when deregulation pressures are increasing across Europe.
UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’
20-Nov-2025     Global Justice Now
The UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed.