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Navigating governments’ obligations in the context of land investments
17-Mar-2016 Earth Institute
A new report from the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment explores the dilemmas posed by land investments under international investment treaties and human rights law.
Indigenous Peoples’ land and resource rights in Latin America
29-Feb-2016 IC Magazine
The impacts of free trade agreements.
Will the TPP set back this campaign to stop a proposed coal mine on Montana tribal land?
6-Jan-2016 Yes
The TPP makes the rights of companies sacrosanct, and that includes the right to mine. But what about the rights of people who live in the way of proposed mining sites?
Land deals and investment treaties
18-Dec-2015 IIED
The vast majority of the land deals from the recent wave of agribusiness investments in low and middle-income countries are protected by at least one investment treaty.
Trading away land rights
15-Oct-2015 Triple Crisis
TPP, investment agreements, and the governance of land
Land rights and investment treaties: exploring the interface
16-Jul-2015 International Institute for Environment and Development
New IIED report finds that investment treaties can have far-reaching implications for land reform, for public action to address “land grabbing” and more generally for land governance frameworks.
International investment law and the [human right to] land
1-Apr-2015 HIC-HLRN
In many cases, international investment agreements have the purpose and/or effect of hijacking the international human rights system.
Licensed to grab: How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice
20-Jan-2015 TNI
This brief analyses and illustrates how international investment rules thwart the struggle for land and food sovereignty.