UN calls for suspension of TTIP talks over fears of human rights abuses [View all]
Source: Guardian UK
A senior UN official has called for controversial trade talks between the European Union and the US to be suspended over fears that a mooted system of secret courts used by major corporations would undermine human rights.
Alfred de Zayas, a UN human rights campaigner, said there should be a moratorium on negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which are on course to turn the EU and US blocs into the largest free-trade area in the world.
Speaking to the Guardian, the Cuban-born US lawyer warned that the lesson from other trade agreements around the world was that major corporations had succeeded in blocking government policies with the support of secret arbitration tribunals that operated outside the jurisdiction of domestic courts.
He said he would becompiling a report on the tactics used by multinationals to illustrate the flaws in current plans for the TTIP.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/may/04/ttip-united-nations-human-right-secret-courts-multinationals
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