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Rights & Democracy, Consejo de Organizaciones Aborígenes de Jujuy (COAJ—Council of Indigenous Organizations of Jujuy), Clinique internationale de défense des droits humains of the Université du Québec à Montréal (CIDDHU—International Clin Download PDF Credits and Publication Plan 1 In September 2008, the Expert Mechanism was given the more specific mandate of preparing a study on […]

Women’s and Girls’ Right to Reparation and the Political Meaning of Caring Reparation is about the political meaning of caring. The Nairobi Declaration on Women’s and Girls’ Right to a Remedy and Reparation Preamble Declaration General Principles and Recommendations 1 – Basic Principles Relating to Women’s and Girl’s Right to a Remedy and Reparation 2 […]

Rights & Democracy, the Continental Network of Indigenous Women, and the International Clinic for the Defense of Human Rights of the Université du Québec à Montréal Download PDF Indigenous Women of the Americas: Double Discrimination >> en Español Presented by the Continental Network of Indigenous Women, The International Clinic for the Defense of Human Rights […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Mapping the Role of Human Rights Law within Investor-state Arbitration >>> en Español VOLUME 3 – (2009) Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Mapping the Role of Human Rights Law within Investor-state Arbitration This study provides analysis of the impact of bilateral investment treaties […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Credits Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration – By Luke Eric Peterson Luke Eric Peterson is a free-lance writer and consultant who has published widely on the international legal regime governing foreign direct investment. He is the editor of an […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Chapter 3: Reflections and Recommendations A series of conclusions can be drawn based on the preceding scenarios where human rights issues are arising in investment treaty arbitrations. First, to the extent that human rights law issues have been referenced to date in arbitration awards and rulings, this has generally been […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Chapter 2: Exploring the Relationship between Human Rights and Investment Treaties Human rights and international law Even as an architecture of treaties has been developed to protect foreign investment, a separate series of international treaties have been concluded in response to the mandate set out in the Charter of the […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Chapter 1: Introduction 1 In recent years, there has been growing speculation that the two regimes may come into occasional friction—or even collision—in certain instances.2 Governments might pursue policies or measures in furtherance of human rights obligations, only to encounter allegations that such initiatives run afoul of parallel international obligations […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Executive Summary The last half-century has seen the expansion of two distinctive areas of international law: one protecting human rights and the other protecting foreign direct investment. The human rights system may be more familiar—consisting of certain international law principles binding upon all states, as well as a range of […]

Luke Eric Peterson Download PDF Acronyms ACIJ Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia BEE Black Economic Empowerment BIT Bilateral Investment Treaty CAFTA US-Central America Free Trade Agreement CELS Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales CIEL Center for International Environmental Law FDI Foreign Direct Investment FIAN Foodfirst Information & Action Network FTAA Free Trade […]