FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The law of foreign investment is investment-related quite opposite to Human Rights law generally, and specifically the human rights of indigenous people. Attempting to harmonize these two laws, this book answers the following key questions: - (a) whether the International Investment Agreements (IIAs) need to assume the responsibility to have in place provisions concerning the human rights of indigenous people: - (b) Whether it will be more efficient and effective for these laws to take the responsibility to protect the rights of indigenous people. The objectives of this BOOK are justified by looking at the forecast of industrialization in various states as characterized by construction works, mining and invitation of the foreign investments. Most importantly, the activities taking place in indigenous occupied territories sometimes lead to their eviction. Existing scholarships have not provided a candid discussion into the relationship between the foreign investment laws specifically, and the human rights of the indigenous people. Of course, the study took cognizance of this impecunious situation with the view to fill the gap.