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November, 2011 Dear all, 130 social activists, campaigners, farmers, trade unionists, academics and lawyers from Africa, Asia, Latin and North America and Europe came together between the 5 and 8 of November 2011 in Brussels on the occasion of the Week of Action on Investment Treaties and for an Alternative Investment Regime. This 4-day event included a Forum, strategy meetings, a Debate with the Source: Transnational Institute Nick Buxton November 2011 The secretive and lucrative world of international investment arbitration has enriched a small coterie of multi-billion dollar international firms, which actively promote and even help finance litigations against states and have fought fiercely to prevent changes to an unjust international investment regime. Download Legalised Profiteering? [PDF 261KB] Introduction On 10 March 2011, the world’s attention was Source: Institute for Policy Studies November 21, 2011 By Sarah Anderson, J. Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, Rebecca Dreyfus, Manuel Perez-Rocha Corporate lawsuits against governments over resource rights continue to increase. In the context of high global prices for natural resources, governments seeking to increase the benefits of those resources for their own people are facing an increasing number of corporate lawsuits. Under free trade agreements and Source: Trade.ec.europa.eu Montevideo, November 11, 2011 In the context of the XXIII Bi-Regional Negotiations Committee (BNC), delegations from MERCOSUR and the European Union held working meetings from November 7 to 11 2011, for the negotiation of a future Bi-Regional Association Agreement between both regions. Chief Negotiators of both sides reaffirmed their commitment to move negotiations forward to reach a comprehensive, balanced and ambitious Association Source: Transnational Institute Thomas Fritz October 2010 The neoliberal FTAs pursued by the EU with Colombia and Peru threaten to exacerbate human rights abuses – which include killings of trade unionists, forced expropriations of indigenous people from land, and environmental destruction – for the sake of corporate profit. The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru Introduction On 19 Source: www.fpif.org November 18, 2011 By J. Alejandro Artiga-Purcell Multinational mining interests are using trade and investment treaties to turn profits and undermine democracy. In September of this year, the price of gold reached a record high, breaking $1,900 per ounce for the first time in history. This unprecedented spike in gold prices has come in the midst of the U.S. debt crisis and Source: En.mercopress.com November 16, 2011 The administration of President Barak Obama reaffirmed its decision to “keep reminding” Argentina of the need to comply with its international obligations as well as the importance of upholding an investment climate ‘transparent and fair’ that includes paying creditors, points out a piece from Buenos Aires La Nacion correspondent in Washington. According to an official internal report from |
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How they threaten communities and the environment, and how we can change them.
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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