Multilateral Investment Court (MIC) – A Fact Sheet
We are seeing ISDS creeping into international decision making, this time under the disguise of the Multilateral Investment Court or MIC.
TPP Labour Rules not a Gold Standard, speech by Laila Harré
In my time tonight, I want to do three things: first, to debunk this myth of the TPP as a “gold standard” treaty for workers’
Asia-Pacific: BWI-AP joins 94 other civil society groups saying NO to investors suing states in RCEP
The RCEP is being negotiated in secret by 16 countries* and a leaked copy of its investment chapter includes proposals to allow foreign investors to sue governments at an international tribunal.
Free trade requires labour norms and democratic control – by Jyrki Raina
Like FDR, who was able to overcome the complete weakness of US federal government over private banks and financial sector in general, when dealing with the Great Depression. Or Lincoln, who held the bipartisan country together with a grip of a mountain grizzly bear.