The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is grateful for the opportunity to provide input on the draft General Comment. As a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute, we focus on international investment and its impacts on sustainable development. While human rights are critical to ensuring sustainable international investment, we have observed that the human rights framework is often ignored or misunderstood in the context of investment. We thus strongly support the Committee’s work in this area, and believe that the General Comment will play an important role in clarifying States’ obligations under the Covenant as they relate to investment regimes and projects. Our submission focuses on the draft Comment’s...
This Perspective discusses counterclaims of respondent states in investor-state dispute-settlement (...
On October 18, 2017, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the CCSI co-hosted a one-...
This outcome document synthesizes key takeaways from a roundtable discussion that sought to explore ...
In January 2017 CCSI made a submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, reg...
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is grateful for the opportunity to provide inpu...
We at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) are grateful for the opportunity to provi...
Comments to USTR Re: Review of US Trade and Investment Agreements (July 17, 2017): CCSI, in response...
CCSI Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment on investor-state disp...
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) took an unusual step in...
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is grateful for the opportunity to provide this...
In March 2017, CCSI submitted comments to the ICSID Secretariat regarding proposed revisions to ICSI...
Land-based investments can create significant grievances for local individuals or communities, and h...
A response by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment to the OECD Public Consultation on Inves...
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently working on how to r...
This Article explores how host governments’ legal obligations can affect or constrain their ability ...
This Perspective discusses counterclaims of respondent states in investor-state dispute-settlement (...
On October 18, 2017, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the CCSI co-hosted a one-...
This outcome document synthesizes key takeaways from a roundtable discussion that sought to explore ...
In January 2017 CCSI made a submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, reg...
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is grateful for the opportunity to provide inpu...
We at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) are grateful for the opportunity to provi...
Comments to USTR Re: Review of US Trade and Investment Agreements (July 17, 2017): CCSI, in response...
CCSI Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment on investor-state disp...
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) took an unusual step in...
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is grateful for the opportunity to provide this...
In March 2017, CCSI submitted comments to the ICSID Secretariat regarding proposed revisions to ICSI...
Land-based investments can create significant grievances for local individuals or communities, and h...
A response by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment to the OECD Public Consultation on Inves...
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently working on how to r...
This Article explores how host governments’ legal obligations can affect or constrain their ability ...
This Perspective discusses counterclaims of respondent states in investor-state dispute-settlement (...
On October 18, 2017, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the CCSI co-hosted a one-...
This outcome document synthesizes key takeaways from a roundtable discussion that sought to explore ...