The Secret World of Investor Courts is a podcast made by the Global Justice Now Youth Network, exploring corporate power, colonialism and climate justice in the shadowy system of trade and investment deals.

In this first episode, youth network activists Natalia and Misha explore the colonial origins and history of the investor-state dispute settlement regime - how we came to a world where foreign corporations can sue governments for billions in closed-door tribunals.

You'll hear contributions from:

Nicolás Perrone, Professor of Economic Law at the University of Valparaíso in Chile, and author Investment Treaties & the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play By Their Own Rules.

Cleodie Rickard, trade justice campaigner at Global Justice Now.

For more information on Global Justice Now's trade justice campaigns, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/our-campaigns/trade/

To learn more about our local groups and youth network, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/get-involved/act-locally/

Twitter @globaljusticeuk

Instagram @globaljusticenow

Our editor and producer was Nada Smiljanic, and our executive producer and facilitator was Jesse Lawson. Original music was composed by Femi Oriogun-Williams.

The Secret World of Investor Courts is a podcast made by the Global Justice Now Youth Network, exploring corporate power, colonialism and climate justice in the shadowy system of trade and investment deals.

In this second episode, youth network activists Alfie, TJ, Lisa and Neve explore how investor-state dispute settlement, or "corporate courts", are structured and the injustices built in.

You'll hear contributions from:

Luciana Ghiotto, a researcher at the Transnational Institute specialising in trade and investment in Latin America, based in Argentina.

Jean Blaylock, an economic justice campaigner currently coordinating the European Trade Justice Coalition.

For more information on Global Justice Now's trade justice campaigns, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/our-campaigns/trade/

To learn more about our local groups and youth network, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/get-involved/act-locally/

Twitter @globaljusticeuk

Instagram @globaljusticenow

Our editor and producer was Nada Smiljanic, and our executive producer and facilitator was Jesse Lawson. Original music was composed by Femi Oriogun-Williams.

The Secret World of Investor Courts is a podcast made by the Global Justice Now Youth Network, exploring corporate power, colonialism and climate justice in the shadowy system of trade and investment deals.

In this third episode, youth network activists Ranecia, Ella and Ludo explore the role that investor claims against states have in blocking, deterring or punishing climate action and communities' struggles for environmental justice.

You'll hear contributions from:

Rachmi Hertanti, a lawyer with a background in International Trade Law from the University of Indonesia and researcher with the Transnational Institute, long engaged in the Indonesian economic justice movement.

For more information on Global Justice Now's trade justice campaigns, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/our-campaigns/trade/

To learn more about our local groups and youth network, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/get-involved/act-locally/

Twitter @globaljusticeuk

Instagram @globaljusticenow

Our editor and producer was Nada Smiljanic, and our executive producer and facilitator was Jesse Lawson. Original music was composed by Femi Oriogun-Williams.

The Secret World of Investor Courts is a podcast made by the Global Justice Now Youth Network, exploring corporate power, colonialism and climate justice in the shadowy system of trade and investment deals.

In this final episode, youth network activists Georgie, Jamie, Luise and Barasha explore how we can extract ourselves from the system of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), hearing the experience of governments who have scrapped ISDS treaties, and wins in Global Justice Now's campaigns against these corporate courts.

You'll hear contributions from:

Rob Davies, former Minister of Trade in South Africa, Honorary Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, and member of the Advisory Council on Trade and Industrial Development of the African continental free trade area.

Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now, author of Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health, and longstanding campaigner against corporate globalisation.

For more information on Global Justice Now's trade justice campaigns, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/our-campaigns/trade/

To learn more about our local groups and youth network, visit: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/get-involved/act-locally/

Twitter @globaljusticeuk

Instagram @globaljusticenow

Our editor and producer was Nada Smiljanic, and our executive producer and facilitator was Jesse Lawson. Original music was composed by Femi Oriogun-Williams.

In this episode we explore what a post-lockdown world might look like and how it will affect the climate. Our panel on international campaigners discusses why we need to treat the climate crisis as urgently as the Covid-19 pandemic, why challenging the free market ideology and committing to universal public healthcare is essential, and what actions we can take to win a brighter, greener future.

Guy Taylor, activism manager at Global Justice Now is joined by Nnimmo Bassey, a leading environmental activist and author in Nigeria, Alice Picard, activist and board member of ATTAC France and Danni Paffard, head of organising at Green New Deal UK, and part of the Build Back Better campaign.

Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence

Dorothy Guerrero, head of policy at Global Justice Now, chairs a panel consisting of Abdul Alkalimat, African-American activist, scholar and author, Walden Bello, Filipino public intellectual and activist and Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations in London.

The panelists explore how structural inequalities and racism in the US, Trump’s catastrophic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and yet another black man’s death at the hands of US law enforcement combined into the explosive country-wide mass uprising that is now causing ripples around the world.

Music: Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence

In this episode, Jean Blaylock, trade campaigner at Global Justice Now is joined by Sharon Treat, senior attorney at the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy in the US, Cecilia Olivet, co-ordinator of the trade and investment programme at the Transnational Institute, and Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now.

They discuss how trade rules underpin the corporate structure of the global economy, what the Trump administration's trade agenda is, and how the pandemic could lead to a new wave of corporate court (ISDS) cases – and what we can do to change this.

Music: Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence

For decades, campaigners around the world have been fighting for access to essential medicines. Drugs produced by the profit-hungry pharmaceutical industry have for far too long been priced so high that millions die every year from treatable conditions. With numerous researchers across the world racing to find effective Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, campaigners are increasing their efforts to ensure that access for all is pushed to the top of the political agenda.

In this episode, we're talking to Umunyana Rugege from Section 27 and Pedro Villardi from ABIAIDS about their fight for access to medicines in the global south and how this long standing issue is impacting their struggle to ensure fair access to Covid-19 treatments and vaccines.

Music: Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence

Although coronavirus affects the health of both men and women, it is women who are carrying the heaviest burden. In this episode, we'll be talking to two women from the global south who have been campaigning for many years to challenge the power structures that result in inequality for women and marginalized people. Jean Enriquez, National Coordinator, World March of Women, and Mercia Andrews from the Rural Women’s Assembly, will compare their experiences of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in urban Philippines and in rural South Africa.

Music: Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence

This is the second of a series of online webinars we are hosting in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dorothy Guerrero, head of policy at Global Justice Now is joined by Myriam Vander Stichele from The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations , Gyekye Tanoh, formerly with Third World Network and Tim Jones, head of policy, Jubilee Debt Campaign to discuss what a post-covid19 global economy might look like and how we continue the struggle for a better world.

Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence