human rights
Business Human Rights Journal | 1-Apr-2025
The urgent demand for critical minerals has led to the expansion of mining operations, often accompanied by significant human rights and environmental abuses that cause social unrest and spark disputes between states and foreign investors.
keywords:
environment ,
human rights ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining ,
Panama
CBC | 17-Feb-2025
Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a now-concluded free trade agreement with Canada, warning it could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.
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actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
Ecuador ,
environment ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining
Radio-Canada | 17-Feb-2025
La plus grande organisation autochtone de l’Équateur s’engage à lutter contre un accord de libre-échange qui vient d’être conclu avec le Canada.
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
Ecuador ,
environment ,
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining
2024 year in review: human rights and ISDS—continued convergence of human rights and the environment
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 3-Feb-2025
2024 shows the continued convergence of human rights and the environment in the ISDS context.
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.
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
Ecuador ,
from the movements ,
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.
keywords:
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.
