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En español Water privatisation goes into reverse Here to stay: Water remunicipalisation as a global trend Satoko Kishimoto Emanuele Lobina, Olivier Petitjean  In the last 15 years there have been at least 180 cases of water remunicipalisation in 35 countries, both in the global North and South, including high profile cases in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa   Trading away Democracy  Pia Eberhardt, Blair Redlin, Cecile Toubeau  The Investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in the far-reaching economic integration agreement between Canada and the European Union prevents governments from acting in the public interest.   Big Corporations, the Bali Package and Beyond  Mary Louise F. Malig  This sequel to the “Tailored for Sharks” report delves deeper into the role the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its legal system play in the corporate architecture that benefits and protects interests of Transnational Corporations (TNCs); details concrete examples of TNCs behind trade disputes; and presents the post-Bali corporate roadmap.   Marine Protected Areas in South Africa - ocean grabbing by another name Timothé Feodoroff, Mads Barbesgaard, Carsten Pedersen  On World Fisheries Day, fisher peoples and their allies are taking to the streets and beaches to fight against ocean grabbing in all its forms - including Marine Protected Areas imposed without consultation that rob and criminalise local communities and benefit only privileged outsiders.   Protecting profits over people  Kevin Woods and Daniel Aguirre  Myanmar is in the process of formulating an investment law and a land use policy that when combined will lay the foundations of development for the country. As it stands, these proposed instruments could have an adverse impact on human rights, and in particular land rights.   Fatal Attraction: Brownfield's Flexibility Doctrine and Global Drug Policy Reform  David Bewley-Taylor, Martin Jelsma and Damon Barrett  US government must face the fact that state-level cannabis reforms have exposed its inability to abide by the legal bedrock of the global drug control system; the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Rather than shun debate, they should open up much-needed conversation about reform   En español La democracia en venta: Cómo las normas de protección de los inversores en el AECG amenazan al interés público en Canadá y la UE Pia Eberhardt, Blair Redlin, Cecile Toubeau  El mecanismo de solución de controversias entre inversores y Estados incluido en el ambicioso acuerdo de integración económica entre Canadá y la Unión Europea impide que los Gobiernos actúen en el interés público.   Atracción fatal: la doctrina de la flexibilidad de Brownfield y la reforma global de las políticas de drogas Damon Barrett, Martin Jelsma and Dave Bewley-Taylor El Gobierno estadounidense debe afrontar que las reformas estatales sobre el cannabis han puesto al descubierto su incapacidad para atenerse a la base jurídica del sistema global de control de drogas: la Convención Única de 1961. En lugar de sofocar el debate, deberían abrir un diálogo muy necesario sobre la reforma de los tratados.

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