ISDS Case Map
human rights
As public support for EU free trade deals is waning, civil society groups are hoping to help tighten the bloc’s standards on trade sustainability as part of an ongoing consultation.
UN experts today called on States to ensure that international investment agreements do not provide a “safe harbour” for investors to abuse the human rights of individuals and communities.
30+ MEPs on the EU Commission to not conclude negotiations of the EU-Chile trade deal before Chile's constitutional process is over.
Transnational companies today rely more than ever on IPR to structure their global value chains, writes Peter Rossman
The Working Group recommends that States terminate or reform urgently all existing international investment agreements.
AFTINET’s submission to the JSCOT RCEP argues that the RCEP has serious flaws and should be renegotiated and amended to address these flaws.
Human rights experts are particularly concerned about the asymmetric nature of the system and a lack of investors’ human rights obligations. Together with high ISDS costs and arbitral awards, they undermine states’ ability to realise economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.
The EU Domestic Advisory Group set up under the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement received a concerning report of the arrest in Hanoi of two prominent civil society activists.
The conditions have been listed in a draft report prepared by foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament.
A human rights-based approach to economic policy-making can result in outcomes from trade negotiations that are not only human rights-consistent but also more politically, socially and economically robust.
