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CoE Committee Warns of Digital Threats to Democracy
February 21, 2019
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers has adopted a declaration calling on CoE governments to construct legal safeguards against the use of advanced digital technologies to “manipulate social and political behaviours” and to promote “critical digital literacy skills” to blunt the impact of such technologies.
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EU Agency Calls for Rights Safeguards in Speech Removal Rules
February 21, 2019
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has released an opinion on an EU proposal for regulating the removal by internet companies of terrorist content in which the FRA calls for the inclusion of rights safeguards in the legislation including limiting the affected content and providing for judicial supervision of the removal process.
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Article: UN Treaty Grants Indigenous Peoples Right to Reject Sea Mining
February 20, 2019
An article by Julian Aguon and Julie Hunter in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal asserts that authorities should rely on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to grant the right to free, prior, and informed consent to indigenous peoples who could face impacts from deep sea mining projects in the international seabed.
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Review Shows Growing Activist Pressure on Corporate Governance
February 20, 2019
Lawyer Samantha Sarkozi cites a global study from shareholder services firm Kingsdale Advisors to argue that investors and shareholders are responding to pressure from activists and multilateral organizations pushing them to consider environmental and social issues in their investment decisions.
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EU-Singapore Trade Deal Includes New Investment Court
February 14, 2019
The European Parliament has approved a trade deal with Singapore that, according to the body, includes bolstered environmental and labor protections and creates an investment court with independent judges that replaces, in the words of one legislator, the “toxic” dispute system currently in place between Singapore and EU members.
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