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The road to responsible investment treaties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Perspective proposes the integration of responsible business conduct through international investment agreements while protecting the interests of investors against maltreatment.
Nieuwenkamp, Roel, Sinivuori, Kimmo
core   +1 more source

Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treaty Conflicts in Investment Arbitration

open access: yesNordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2012
The thesis assesses one of the core problems arising in international investment law, namely, the conflicts that international investment treaties may create with other international agreements.
Ahmad Ali Ghouri
doaj   +2 more sources

Implementing Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Australia: A Five‐Phase Framework for Indigenous Data Governance

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the development of a five‐phase Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) Framework in Australia, focusing on partnerships between the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) sector and non‐Indigenous health entities.
Jacob Prehn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

INTERPRETATION OF AMBIGUOUS PROVISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT TREATIES AUTHENTICATED IN TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2014
The presented article identifies and offers solutions to problems related to interpretation of international investment treaties, which have been authenticated in two or more languages. It focuses on situations when the provisions of investment treaties
Filip BALCERZAK
doaj   +1 more source

Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Brazil’s bilateral investment treaties: More than a new investment treaty model? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
After resisting ratifying investment treaties in the 1990s, Brazil has now become a player in the international investment regime. This Perspective argues that the new Brazilian investment treaties are part of an alternative investment policy, and that ...
de Cerqueira César, Gustavo Rojas   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formulations of Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in South Asian Investment Agreements

open access: yesJournal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Fair and equitable treatment (FET) is a central standard in international investment agreements (IIAs) that protects foreign investors. In South Asia, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and other investment agreements adopt diverse formulations of FET,
Mujeeb Rahman Emami   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Different investment treaties, different effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Until recently, quantitative assessments of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) have tended to treat them as interchangeable. Such assessments assume that the only measure of investor protections encoded in IIAs is whether a treaty had been signed
Peinhardt, Clint, Allee, Todd
core   +1 more source

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