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Investment Protection Agreements, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: An Uneasy Mix

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  • Roos Os

    (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO))

  • Roeline Knottnerus

    (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO))

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A sustainable trade and investment policy should enhance corporate social responsibility and accountability. The current architecture of trade and investment agreements requires fundamental recalibrating to include binding and enforceable investor obligations, while the grounds for bringing investment claims against states should be curtailed. The policy space of states to regulate in the wider public interest must take firm precedence over investor rights and privileges, and at the international level, effective avenues should be established that provide access to justice for victims of investor crimes.

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  • Roos Os & Roeline Knottnerus, 2016. "Investment Protection Agreements, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: An Uneasy Mix," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 59(1), pages 107-113, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:59:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1057_s41301-017-0089-6
    DOI: 10.1057/s41301-017-0089-6
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