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Quebec considers ratifying ICSID Convention: Goodbye to judicial reviews of investor-state decisionsSource: The Council of Canadians By Stuart Trew, Thursday, June 13th, 2013 We learned last August that Canada was pressuring the provinces to ratify the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States. Today, the RQIC network in Quebec is denouncing the Parti québécois for its motion of June 12 to move in that direction, saying it is Source: Devex.com By Devex Editor on 10 June 2013 A mine in La Oroya, Peru. Many children in the area suffer health conditions caused by heavy polluting facilities that do not comply with environmental regulations. Photo by: Matthew Burpee / CC BY-NC-SAEDITOR’S NOTE: Bilateral Investment Treaties or BITs have many advantages, but are they good for inclusive development? Terra Lawson-Remer, Fellow for Civil Society, Source: Guardian.co.uk Posted by Meera Karunananthan Monday 10 June 2013 El Salvador’s battle to protect its water by becoming the first country to ban metal mining could have a wide-ranging resonance No drying up … with their water supply threatened, Salvadorans are hitting back at mining companies such as Pacific Rim. Photograph: Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images Five hundred scientists meeting in Bonn Source: Democracy Now To watch the interview click on the image. The Obama administration is facing increasing scrutiny for the extreme secrecy surrounding negotiations around a sweeping new trade deal that could rewrite the nation’s laws on everything from healthcare and Internet freedom to food safety and the financial markets. The latest negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were recently held behind closed By Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt / Source: Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory / Tni.org / June 3, 2013 Source: The Council of Canadians / Canadians.org / May 31, 2013 Source: Canadians.org By Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy / Source: Nytimes.com / June 2, 2013 Source: Nonegociable.pe / May 31, 2013 Source: Reuters.com By Maggie Fick May 29, 2013 (Reuters) – A thorny legal issue facing Egypt’s government was laid bare last month when Prime Minister Hisham Kandil was given a suspended jail sentence for failing to implement a court ruling to renationalise a textile company sold off by the Hosni Mubarak administration. The ruling, made in 2011, ordered the then government to repurchase textile International Investment Agreements. Issues Note No.2 Source: Unctad.org / May 27, 2013 |
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We provide this documentation from the ICSID web page for a critical analysis. It includes the list of cases that this tribunal has filed and managed historically and until 2009.
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