Analysis of the impacts of international investment agreements on the rights of indigenous peoples 2016, para. 31
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International investment agreements can have serious impacts on indigenous peoples' rights as a result of three main interrelated issues: (a) the failure to adequately address human rights in the preambles and substantive provisions of such agreements; (b) the actual or perceived threat of enforcement of investor protections under investor-State dispute settlement arbitration, leading to regulatory chill; and (c) the exclusion of indigenous peoples from the drafting, negotiation and approval processes of agreements and from the settlement of disputes.
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
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/33/42, para. 31.
Paragraph focus
Impacts of international investment agreements and investor-State dispute settlements