About the Project

The Network for Justice in Global Investment is a joint effort by citizens and organizations in a variety of countries to challenge one of the most anti-democratic aspects of the global economic order – the rules governing international investment. Read More.

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Observations on the Final Report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie*

Source: The Jus Semper Global Alliance

May 2011

Alejandro Teitelbaum has devoted many years to work on the issue of human rights in the realm of global corporations and other business enterprises. As the former Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, for the American Association of Jurists –based in Buenos Aires, he spent time toiling with the bureaucracies of the UN

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Harnessing Freedom of Investment for Green Growth

Source: OECD

05/05/2011 – Harnessing Freedom of Investment for Green Growth (PDF) addresses how the international investment policy community can help countries achieve green growth.

It focuses on the relationship between international environmental law and international investment law; investment treaty practices and environmental goals; investor-state dispute settlement; green protectionism; and the contribution of investment and business to greening the economy.

Government delegates at the Freedom

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Canada’s Free Trade agenda: Dissing democracy and rewarding despots

Source: Alianza Social Continental

PRESS RELEASE Elections 2011

(Montreal and Ottawa, April 27, 2011) – Since coming to power the minority government of Stephen Harper has vigorously pursued preferential free trade with despots abroad and spared no quarter for democracy at home, says a broad group of Canadian organizations which are demanding a new foreign policy and trade approach by the next government. The

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The IMF, Capital Controls and Developing Countries

Source: Globalization and Sustainable Development

By Kevin P. Gallagher

Economic and Political Weekly, May 7, 2011

Last month the International Monetary Fund formally suggested that there may be situations when developing countries can gain from placing regulations on the inward flow of foreign capital. In this article, GDAE’s Kevin P. Gallagher critically analyzes the new IMF policy, based on a close analysis of

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CETA procurement rules threaten public water, says new report

Source The Council of Canadians

Friday, May 6th, 2011

A new report from Eau Secours! and CUPE-Quebec claims procurement and competition provisions in the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement would be harmful to the quality and cost of water services. Combined, these provisions would create a barrier to local development policies at the municipal and provincial level, as well as encourage privatization of

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