Week of Action against BITs and for an Alternative Investment Regime

• Busting the myths about the need for investment protection, Alberto Arroyo,  RMALC, Mexico (Power Point Presentation, video)
• IIAs and architecture of impunity: TNCs rights, Juan Hernández Zubizarreta, EHU-UPV, Basque Country (Power Point Presentation, video)
• Investment treaties and the constraints on policy space: the relevant State obligations, Nathalie Bernasconi, IISD, Switzerland (Power Point Presentation, video)
• Investor-to-state arbitration: What?s wrong with ICSID and some key cases, Gus van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School - York University (Power Point Presentation, video)

Produced by the Network for Justice in Global Investment (NJGI)

• Global Investment Rules: Threat to Deocracy and the environment (ENG)
• Las Reglas Globales de Inversión: Una amenaza para la Democracia y el Medio Ambiente (ESP)

• State of play in the European Union, Marc Maes, 11.11.11 (video)
• EU-India FTA Leena Menghaney,  MSF/ Forum on FTAs, India (Power point presentations, video)
• Canada-EU Trade Agreement, Stuart Trew, Trade Justice Network/ Quebec Network on Hemispheric Integration, Canada (video)

• Sarah Anderson, IPS, US (Poerw Point Presentation, video)

• State of Investment regime in ASEAN, Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South/EU-ASEAN FTA campaign (Power Point Presentation, video)
• State of investment regime in Africa, Sylvester Bagooro, Third World Network-African Trade Network, Ghana
• State of investment regime in Latin America, Hector Moncayo, Hemispheric Social Alliance

Alternatives to investor to state dispute settlement mechanism, Gus van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School - York University (power point presentation)