Rights of indigenous peoples on the impact of international investment and free trade on the human rights of indigenous peoples 2015, para. 17
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- The majority of investor-State dispute settlement proceedings are bought against developing countries. Some 78 per cent of the known 608 investor-State dispute settlement claims bought against 101 countries have been against less developed countries. However, recent trends have shown that a growing proportion of investor-State dispute settlement cases are being brought against developed countries. In 2014, 40 per cent of new cases were against such States. Cases against developed countries are predominantly brought by investors in other economically advanced countries, such as those in North America and the European Union. As at the end of 2014, the most common States to be challenged in investor-State dispute settlement cases were Argentina, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, India, Ukraine, Poland and the United States. While there is a mixture of developed and developing countries in that list, tribunal proceedings do not affect them equally. For example, the United States has used its legal and financial resources to fight investor-State dispute settlement cases, and it has never lost and been required to award compensation to an investor.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/301, para. 17.
- Paragraph number
- 17
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