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Article

1 Feb 2009

Author:
Luke Eric Peterson, Rights & Democracy [Canada]

[PDF] Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties - Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration

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... This paper introduces the foreign investment protection regime, so that human rights actors and experts can understand the basic features of the system—and its key legal and policy implications. The paper then profiles a series of lawsuits that have arisen between foreign investors and their host states where state compliance with investment treaty obligations is at issue, and where human rights issues have also arisen. [refers to Suez, Vivendi (now Veolia Environnement), Anglian Water Group (now AWG plc), Aguas Barcelona, Aguas Argentinas, Glamis Gold (part of Goldcorp)]

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