Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped●●●
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Transnational Institute - TNI
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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
At the UN Human Rights Council session in September 2013, Ecuador led a number of governments in issuing a statement in favour of a legally binding international instrument on business & human rights to be concluded within the UN system. The●●●
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Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM)
CULTURAL RIGHTS A publication of the CETIM human rights series 56 pagesISBN 978-2-88053-103-4 Number 15 (2013) The new publication of the Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM) human rights series on Cultural rights is out ! Cultural rights are a field●●●