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Sarama Resources submits request for arbitration against Burkina Faso
Sarama | 13-Dec-2024
Formal commencement of international arbitration proceedings for significant damages claim.
keywords: Australia , Burkina Faso , Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
How predatory energy developers harassed Hondurans
Foreign Policy in Focus | 13-Dec-2024
Honduras’s coup-era government opened the floodgates for predatory energy projects. Now that Hondurans are fighting back, the companies are trying to take them to arbitration.
keywords: energy , Honduras , human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS
“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South
Land and Climate Review | 12-Dec-2024
Experts talk about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , environment , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Civil society organisations push for transformative global investment rules
SOMO | 11-Dec-2024
The Entebbe Declaration calls for justice and sustainability in global investment governance.
keywords: actions | resistance , Africa , ECT , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Le Maroc cherche à annuler la sentence arbitrale du CIRDI concernant la raffinerie SAMIR
Barlamane.com | 11-Dec-2024
Le Maroc a entrepris des démarches soutenues pour obtenir l’annulation définitive d’une sentence arbitrale de 150 millions de dollars en faveur de Corral Morocco Holdings AB, l’actionnaire suédois majoritaire de la raffinerie SAMIR.
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Morocco
How to buy a piece of a lawsuit and impoverish a country
Inside Climate News | 10-Dec-2024
Investors buying into claims against governments are winning huge payouts. Developing nations, and the environment, are losing big.
keywords: Denmark , environment , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , sovereignty | democracy
Panthera Resources’ arbitration re-rating possibility too large to ignore, suggests broker
Proactive | 10-Dec-2024
Panthera Resources PLC has been highlighted by VSA Capital as one of a growing number of small caps offering potentially significant upside via international litigation.
keywords: corporate interests , India , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
AXA presenta arbitraje de inversión contra México en CIADI
CIAR Global | 9-Dec-2024
La aseguradora francesa AXA SA ha presentado una demanda de arbitraje de inversiones contra México ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a Inversiones (CIADI).
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico
Cervecera presenta arbitraje de inversión contra Perú en CIADI
CIAR Global | 9-Dec-2024
La compañía cervecera Backus (Reino Unido) ha presentado un arbitraje de inversiones contra Perú por una reclamación de impuestos durante periodos comprendidos entre 2014 y 2019, tras una decisión del Tribunal Fiscal peruano que ratifica la deuda de Backus de más de 1.600 millones de soles sobre el Impuesto Selectivo al Consumo (ISC).
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Peru
Teleco guatemalteca amenaza a El Salvador con arbitraje de inversión
CIAR Global | 9-Dec-2024
La compañía con sede en Guatemala Fibranet y su subsidiaria Cablefrecuencias enviaron una notificación de intención de recurrir a arbitraje internacional a El Salvador, a través de la firma internacional Eversheds Sutherland, respecto a sus inversiones en el sector de las telecomunicaciones.
keywords: CAFTA , El Salvador , Guatemala , investor-state disputes | ISDS , telecommunications