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    Panel discussions on Investment & Human Rights at the World Investment Forum

Panel discussions on Investment & Human Rights at the World Investment Forum

For the first time on 15 October 2014 the World Investment Forum (WIF) will host an official set of panel discussions on Investment & Human Rights. The WIF is the high-level, biennial, multi-stakeholder assembling hosted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that aims to facilitate dialogue and action on the world’s key emerging investment-related challenges and that seeks to promote investment flows that contribute to sustainable and inclusive development.

The Investment & Human Rights panels, jointly organised by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNCTAD, and supported and moderated by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Investment & Human Rights Project, will focus on the relevance of human rights for investment policymaking, and will explore examples of good practice from a number of States in Asia, Africa and elsewhere.

The panels will welcome high-level participants from a wide range of geographies and professional perspectives including government, the private sector, the international arbitration community, civil society, academia and international institutions. Some of the panelists include: Niki Krugger Chief Director Trade Negotiations, Department of Trade and Industry from South Africa; Toby Laundau QC and international arbitrator; Lorenzo Cotula of the International Institute for Environment and Development; Valerio Bosco of the African Minerals Development Center/UNECA; Keith Myers Director, Richmond Energy Partners and Begaiym Esenkulova of the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic.

The aim of the panel is to help WIF attendees build their understanding of how human rights can be relevant to investment policymaking, including the negotiation and drafting of international investment treaties, State-investor contracts and the design of domestic laws and regulations and to gather some concrete examples of what some States are now doing […]

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    Expert Article on OECD report looking at the interaction between human rights and international investment law

Expert Article on OECD report looking at the interaction between human rights and international investment law

The article by Kathryn Gordon, Joachim Pohl and Marie Bouchard presents the findings of the recent OECD report “Investment Treaty Law, Sustainable Development and Responsible Business Conduct: A Fact-Finding Survey”. The report provides a starting point for looking at the interaction between human rights law and international investment law by generating internationally comparable information on how human rights concerns and related issues are referred to in investment treaty texts and arbitration decisions based on those treaties. By providing an initial indication of this interaction, the report invites further investigation of how a range of interests not strictly construed from the text of treaties – including human rights – are being addressed or not in Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

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IHR Project interviews Toby Landau QC

Andrea Saldarriaga, Lead of the LSE Investment & Human Rights Project, interviews Toby Landau QC, arbitration practitioner and barrister from Essex Court Chambers, on the relationship between arbitration and human rights. In his interview, Toby reflects on how human rights issues are relevant to investment arbitration, how these issues are being raised and handled in arbitration proceedings and what challenges this poses for arbitration practitioners and the protection of human rights. This is the first of the Project’s learning videos on arbitration and human rights.

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Investment and Human Rights Learning Hub launched

On April 10, 2014 the Investment & Human Rights project has launched the new Learning Hub. Explore the connections between investment and human rights, find relevant resources in the toolboxes, watch a learning video or read an expert article on a range of investment and human rights themes. This video introduces the project. Explore the Learning Hub and let us know the issues important to you.

 

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