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 |
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