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Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Mapping the Role of Human Rights Law within Investor-state Arbitration

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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 and arbitration processes on human rights. Investing in Human Rights: Volume 3 (PDF)

Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration introduces the foreign investment protection regime and presents its key legal and policy implications for the protection of human rights. The report profiles a series of lawsuits that have arisen between foreign investors and their host states—where state compliance with investment treaty obligations is in question and where human rights issues have arisen as a result of investment projects.

The report will be of interest to governments, the private sector and civil society working on issues of foreign investment, corporate accountability and dispute arbitration.

Investments and Human Rights: A Three Volume Initiative

Rights & Democracy has been actively involved in work around corporate accountability and the human rights impact of trade and foreign investment since 1994. We have published studies on corporate codes of conduct and related issues, argued before the World Trade Organization that the trade regime be accountable to international human rights law, and organized numerous international conferences and seminars.

The Investment and Human Rights initiative was launched in 2004 to illustrate in concrete terms that if investment is to contribute towards sustainable and equitable development, its human rights impacts will have to be both acknowledged and addressed. Through this initiative, we have designed and produced three publications on various aspects of this fast-evolving field. All three volumes are available in English, French and Spanish.

	VOLUME 1 – (2007) Human Rights Impact Assessments for Foreign Investment Projects: Learning from community experiences in the Philippines, Tibet, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Argentina, and Peru. This first volume is a draft methodology for community-based impact assessments in five case studies. Investing in Human Rights: Volume 1 (PDF)
	VOLUME 2 – (2008) Getting it Right: A step-by-step guide to assess the impact of foreign investment on human rights Volume 2 is a practical tool. It provides an annotated community-based methodology in CD-ROM format. Investing in Human Rights: Volume 2 (Installation Guide in PDF)