Rights of indigenous peoples on the impact of international investment and free trade on the human rights of indigenous peoples 2015, para. 42
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- International investment agreements also have the potential to negatively affect the realization of a number of the economic and social rights of indigenous peoples. The costs borne by States in defending themselves in investor-State dispute settlement cases and in paying awards when defeated can be extremely high. That diverts public resources, which could limit the ability of States to invest in the realization of economic and social rights. International investment agreements can also drive and maintain the practice of privatizing public services and goods, including health care and water. For example, expropriation and fair and equal treatment clauses could make it prohibitively expensive for Governments to revoke private contracts for the provision of public health services. Given the private sector's poor track record of catering to the needs of the most marginalized and vulnerable, demonstrated, for example, by the privatization of water, the impact on the economic and social rights of indigenous peoples is significant.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- Ethnic minorities
- Año
- 2015
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/301, para. 42.
- Paragraph number
- 42
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