Profiting from Crisis: How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries

Transnational Institute - TNI

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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Calls for a binding treaty on business & human rights – perspectives

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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Cultural rights

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●●●

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