ISDS Case Map
human rights
As longstanding advocates of human rights and democracy, the EU can leverage the FTA to spotlight abuses and ensure the respect of rule of law, democracy, and human rights, and ensuring that they remain central to the agreement.
The EU must send a clear message to Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which continues to flout its international human rights commitments and to massacre journalists in Gaza.
EU trade chief’s visit to Hanoi should address political prisoners, labor rights.
Human Rights Watch and other groups repeatedly warned EU officials about Vietnam’s rights record before the EVFTA was ratified. Since then, \Vietnam has not only failed to undertake any significant reforms but intensified its systematic repression of basic freedoms.
The EU executive has called for a suspension of free trade with Israel and sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Condemning the recently-inked India-Israel Bilateral Investment Treaty and terming it a clear sign of India’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, nearly 100 rights organisations and individuals have urged the Indian government to withdraw from the treaty.
The Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement treats Palestinian land as though it were “Israeli,” rewarding illegal settlements and giving cover to Israel’s ceaseless colonial expansion.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union speech to finally address the situation in Palestine after weeks of silence.
Condemning Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's visit to India, the CPI(M) said it is "shameful" that the government is hosting him at a time when people are being massacred in Gaza every day.
A coalition of rights groups and trade unions express deep concern around the lack of transparency and rights protections in the forthcoming Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Gulf Cooperation Council
