IFC and United Nations Release Study of Human Rights and Investment Contracts
"Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights" aims to raise awareness of the relationship between the protection of investor rights and the host state's human rights obligations under international agreements. Specifically, it examined what, if any, impact stabilization clauses and similar risk allocation provisions in state contracts with foreign investors have on the host state's ability to adopt and implement human rights laws and regulations in areas such as labor, non-discrimination, and protection of health and the environment.
IFC Launches "Market Movers: Lessons from a Frontier of Innovation"
"Market Movers: Lessons from a Frontier of Innovation" explores whether emerging economy firms are managing to embed sustainability in their business strategies in ways that stand comparison with companies anywhere else in the world. It tells the stories of four firms ranging across the globe – in many cases operating in some of the most challenging environments in which to foster commercial success – and how they have found business value in strategies based on sustainability.
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