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Odyssey Marine Exploration reports win in NAFTA arbitration case
Business Wire | 18-Sep-2024
The award orders Mexico to pay US$37.1 million for breaching its obligations under NAFTA, plus interest.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Clive Palmer’s $300bn claim ‘absurd’, says solicitor-general
The Australian | 17-Sep-2024
The solicitor-general has pilloried Clive Palmer’s $300bn legal claim against Australia as weak, absurd and demonstrably in­adequate.
keywords: Australia , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
In Honduras, libertarians and legal claims threaten to bankrupt a nation
Inside Climate News | 17-Sep-2024
One of Latin America’s poorest countries faces a wave of claims from foreign investors seeking billions of dollars. Chief among them is an American company looking to build a semi-autonomous “startup city.”
keywords: CAFTA , Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS
How the international investment law regime undermines access to justice for investment-affected stakeholders
CCSI | 17-Sep-2024
From the perspective of investment-affected communities, foreign investments arise out of a partnership between the investor and the state. Impacted people are often not consulted or involved in project establishment or development.
keywords: indigenous peoples , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
La cuantía concedida en los laudos ISDS se multiplica por 10 en 20 años
CIAR Global | 16-Sep-2024
El laudo medio en la década entre 1994 y 2003 se situó en 25 millones USD y se ha multiplicado por diez hasta 256 millones USD en la década entre 2014 y 2023. Los tribunales han concedido sumas superiores a los 100 millones en más de una cuarta parte de todos los casos ganados por inversores.
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Nigeria should audit her Bilateral Investment Treaties –Owonikoko
New Telegraph | 16-Sep-2024
Why President Bola Tinubu should use diplomatic means to resolve the dispute, ANAYO EZUGWU brings the excerpts
keywords: China , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Nigeria
Inversiones mafiosas contra Honduras
ISDS América Latina - TNI | 14-Sep-2024
En 2023 y 2024 Honduras ha recibido el total de diecinueve demandas en el arbitraje internacional por parte de inversionistas extranjeros y nacionales. Solamente entre 2023 y 2024 (hasta agosto) recibió catorce demandas en el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias sobre Inversiones (CIADI), del Banco Mundial.
keywords: CAFTA , Honduras , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , sovereignty | democracy
Canada faces $100-million forfeiture ‘test case’ as Russian airline sues over grounded plane
The Hill Times | 13-Sep-2024
In August 2023, Volga-Dnepr filed a motion of intent to initiate the dispute with Canada under a 1989 treaty that Ottawa penned with the then-Soviet Union, which included a investor-state dispute settlement system.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Russia
Serbia’s lithium gamble: Reviving Rio Tinto’s mine amidst protests and economic promises
TNI | 12-Sep-2024
In 2021, Rio Tinto filed a notice of dispute related to the government announcement to cancel the Lithium project in the Jadar Valley under the UK-Serbia bilateral investment agreement.
keywords: actions | resistance , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Serbia
Amenazas trasnacionales ante la reforma judicial
La Jornada | 11-Sep-2024
Hay que tomar muy en serio las amenazas de la Cámara Internacional de Comercio de más demandas en contra de México en tribunales internacionales ante la reforma judicial aprobada por la Cámara de Diputados la semana pasada, y actualmente en discusión en el Senado
keywords: corporate interests , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA , sovereignty | democracy