human rights
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.
United Steelworkers | 20-Oct-2024
We are writing on behalf of Canadian unions that are deeply concerned about the current negotiations for a free trade agreement with Ecuador.
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actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
Ecuador ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining
Le Devoir | 7-Oct-2024
Depuis une semaine, différentes communautés autochtones de l’Équateur ont parcouru ensemble le Canada pour partager leurs inquiétudes face à l’accord de libre-échange en cours de négociations entre leur pays et le Canada.
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Canada ,
Ecuador ,
environment ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining ,
women
CCSI | 3-Jun-2024
International Investment and Trade Law should be reformed for climate-aligned investment governance.
Tameteo.com | 11-Dec-2023
Quand les Etats s’efforcent de prendre des mesures audacieuses pour réduire les émissions, leurs efforts sont compromis par une menace insidieuse : le Règlement des Différends entre Investisseurs et Etats (RDIE).
Legal Cheek | 8-Dec-2023
Without a mandatory and uniform standard on the human rights obligations of investors in investment law, any change in international investment arbitration may be incremental.
CCSI | 1-Dec-2023
Terminating investment treaties and withdrawing advance consent to ISDS would allow governments to clear the path from problematic treaties centered on investment protection and ISDS, which in practice benefit unsustainable investment.
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alternatives ,
climate ,
environment ,
human rights ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Inside Climate News | 24-Oct-2023
An obscure but far-reaching system allowing corporations to sue governments is being “weaponized” by the fossil fuel and mining industries, according to a new UN report, jeopardizing progress in developing nations.
OHCHR | 28-Sep-2023
Le « règlement des différends entre investisseurs et États » est devenu un obstacle majeur aux mesures qu’il faut prendre d’urgence pour faire face aux crises planétaires en matière d’environnement et de droits humains, selon un rapport des Nations unies.
DeSmog | 28-Sep-2023
A UN expert calls for ending confidential arbitration agreements in development and trade treaties, which are forcing nations to roll back climate, enviro, human rights protections while owing fossil fuel companies billions in damages.
