ISDS Case Map
human rights
The European Union started an 18-month process that could lead to the suspension of Cambodia’s duty-free trade access over its record on human rights and democracy.
The European Parliament and the European Council should postpone the ratification of the proposed EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement until the Vietnamese government takes concrete steps to improve its increasingly abusive human rights record.
Investment treaties with ISDS provisions make it hard to tax foreign firms and worsen human rights and labor practices.
The international trading system is facing a crisis – but protectionism isn’t the biggest test EU leaders must deal with.
Many SEZs have been associated with compressions of land, labour and human rights. Investment treaties protect investments against adverse regulatory change, including in SEZs. To date, investors have brought at least 20 arbitrations to challenge diverse aspects of SEZ regimes.
Extreme right-wing, anti-immigration and Islamophobic parties tend to oppose so-called "free trade" agreements.
Indonesia could delay signing a planned free trade deal with Australia if Prime Minister Scott Morrison formally recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital, political analysts suggest, as the move would provoke deep anger in the lead up to the Muslim nation's presidential election.
Free trade has enabled a few companies to secure monopolies or near-monopolies, which has given rise to massive inequalities.
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean's turn at the polls, they're still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa company...
While some states in East and Southeast Asia favor the 16-nation RCEP trade deal, many civil society groups say it lacks transparency and public participation.
