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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Investment and Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Charting an Elusive Intersection by Daria Davitti
This book analyses the way in which international human rights law (IHRL) and international investment law (IIL) are deployed – or fail to be deployed – in conflict countries within the context of natural resources extraction. It specifically analyses the way in which IIL protections impact on the parallel protection of economic social and cultural rights (ESC rights) in the host state especially the right to water. Arguing that current responses have been unsatisfactory it considers the emergence of the ‘Protect Respect and Remedy’ framework and the Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (jointly the Framework) as a possible analytical instrument. In so doing it proposes a different approach to the way in which the Framework is generally interpreted and then investigates the possible applicability of this ‘recalibrated’ Framework to the study of the IHRL-IIL interplay in a host country in a protracted armed conflict: Afghanistan. Daria Davitti is a Research Fellow at Lund University in Sweden.