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L’accord d’investissement UE-Chine (CAI)
Explique moi le commerce | 24-Nov-2021
Que va-t-il changer? Va-t-il être ratifié? Peut-il renforcer les droits humains en Chine? etc.
keywords: audio , China , EU , human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS
States must stop prioritizing investment over human rights – UN experts
OHCHR | 15-Oct-2021
UN experts today called on States to ensure that international investment agreements do not provide a “safe harbour” for investors to abuse the human rights of individuals and communities.
keywords: human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
Human rights-compatible international investment agreements
United Nations | 8-Sep-2021
The Working Group recommends that States terminate or reform urgently all existing international investment agreements.
keywords: human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Libre comercio, soberanía y derechos humanos
Diario Uchile | 24-Aug-2021
La globalización y los procesos de integración económica en América Latina han significado el aumento del poder que las empresas transnacionales ostentan en nuestros países.
keywords: corporate interests , human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America
Protecting human and environmental rights in international investment agreements
East Asia Forum | 9-Aug-2021
Human rights experts are particularly concerned about the asymmetric nature of the system and a lack of investors’ human rights obligations. Together with high ISDS costs and arbitral awards, they undermine states’ ability to realise economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.
keywords: environment , human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Corporate power and abuse is a root cause of migration
People’s World | 29-Jun-2021
To seriously address the roots and causes of migration, it is urgent to dismantle the neoliberal rules which grant excessive privileges to transnational corporations.
keywords: CAFTA , Central America , human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
The real cause and the hard cure for the “regulatory chill” of international investment agreements
Lexology | 23-Apr-2021
The solution to the “regulatory chill” problem lies not in the cosmetic amendments to IIAs but in “supranational” legal regimes providing for full convergence of international investment law and human rights.
keywords: human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
Reforma de derecho de la inversión desde cero: extractivismo, derechos humanos y tratados de inversión
IISD | 9-Apr-2021
Para muchas personas afectadas por la extracción de recursos, los tratados de inversión pueden proteger emprendimientos que pueden cambiar drásticamente sus vidas con poco margen para expresar sus opiniones u obtener reparación.
keywords: human rights , indigenous peoples , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , land , mining , natural resources
Rethinking investment law from the ground up: extractivism, human rights, and investment treaties
IISD | 9-Apr-2021
For many people affected by resource extraction, it is the prevailing legal regime that dis-embeds and disintegrates, because investment treaties can protect ventures that upend their lives with little scope for voice or redress.
keywords: human rights , indigenous peoples , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , land , mining , natural resources
La refonte du droit de l’investissement à partir de la base : l’extractivisme, les droits humains et les traités d’investissement
IISD | 8-Apr-2021
Pour de nombreuses personnes affectées par l’extraction des ressources, le régime juridique désintègre, car les traités d’investissement peuvent protéger des projets qui bouleversent leur vies, leur laissant peu de chance de se faire entendre.
keywords: human rights , indigenous peoples , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , land , mining , natural resources