human rights
OMAL | 6-Feb-2019
Los tribunales de arbitraje son precisamente parte de un proceso más amplio que, a través de la nueva oleada de tratados de comercio e inversión en los que estos se insertan, pretende implementar una constitución económica global que definitivamente sitúe en la cúspide político-jurídica los intereses corporativos y a las empresas transnacionales.
Washington Post | 3-Jan-2019
Investment treaties with ISDS provisions make it hard to tax foreign firms and worsen human rights and labor practices.
CIAR Global | 14-Dec-2018
El conflicto está relacionado con la suspensión del proyecto de minería de oro Tambor, en San José del Golfo y San Pedro Ayampuc, y la reclamación estaría cifrada en 300 millones de dólares.
IIED | 8-Nov-2018
Many SEZs have been associated with compressions of land, labour and human rights. Investment treaties protect investments against adverse regulatory change, including in SEZs. To date, investors have brought at least 20 arbitrations to challenge diverse aspects of SEZ regimes.
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human rights ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
labour | workers’ rights ,
land
Expropriate | 4-Aug-2018
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
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Germany ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
land ,
Switzerland ,
UK ,
Zimbabwe
Chile Mejor sin TLC | 29-Jun-2018
Plataforma Chile Mejor sin TLC manifiesta su oposición al actual Sistema de resolución de controversias estado-inversor y se suma a carta de organizaciones de la sociedad civil global
TNI | 25-Apr-2018
A key feature of the “modernisation” process is the inclusion of a controversial investment protection chapter with the same characteristics as the one recently included in the Canada-EU trade agreement.
keywords:
corporate interests ,
EU ,
human rights ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
ISDS reform ,
Mexico
Revista Pueblos | 24-Apr-2018
Uno de los principales elementos de la modernización del TLC UE-México pasa por incorporar al texto un polémico capítulo relativo a la protección de las inversiones, que tendría las mismas características que el que se incluyó recientemente en el CETA.
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corporate interests ,
EU ,
human rights ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
ISDS reform ,
Mexico
Politheor | 15-Feb-2018
Why are countries so gripped in their quest for economic growth that they are empowering multinational corporations at the expense of their citizens?
Strategic Review | 5-Jan-2018
After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization have had a devastating and discriminatory impact on women.
