The latest
| 22-Aug-2012
Venezuela turned out to be the country with the highest number of complaints filed against it at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Icsid) of the World Bank, after four new complaints lodged in the days prior to its effective pullout of the body.
Economic Times | 26-Jul-2012
Malaysia headquartered Axiata Group, which holds about 20% stake in Idea Cellular has threatened claim damages and drag the Indian government to international arbitration under bilateral investment protection pacts (BIPA), making it the sixth international investor in the telecoms space to serve notice under bilateral trade agreements.
UNCTAD | 10-Jul-2012
UNCTAD’s flagship publication, World Investment Report 2012: Towards a New Generation of Investment Policies, was launched on 5 July in Geneva by Dr. James Zhan, Director of the Investment and Enterprise Division, as well as by staff and collaborators worldwide.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Express Tribune | 9-Jul-2012
Amid calls to make public the draft of bilateral investment treaty, the government claims that it has gained much and lost nothing to the United States as Washington has agreed to first taking any business dispute to Pakistani courts for settlement.
Transnational Dispute Management | 7-Jul-2012
Transnational Dispute Management is currently preparing a special issue on "Aligning Human Rights and Investment Protection".
keywords:
human rights ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
TNI | 6-Jul-2012
An animation which exposes how people are paying the costs of corporate lawsuits under international investment agreements.
| 2-Jul-2012
President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono is telling his ministers to prepare for the worst after the government recently entered into arbitration with an international mining company.
IA Reporter | 27-Jun-2012
French multinational Veolia has had an ICSID arbitration claim registered against the Arab Republic of Egypt.
| 11-Jun-2012
On 5 June 2012 the arbitral tribunal of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) adopted the decision on the case initiated by Caratube International Oil Company LLP (CIOC) against the Republic of Kazakhstan.
| 5-Jun-2012
In a May 31 press release, the US private equity fund Lone Star said it was planning to request investor state dispute (ISD) arbitration for losses suffered due to "unlawful" interference by the South Korean government.
keywords:
Belgium ,
ICSID ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Korea ,
Luxembourg ,
US
