By speaking about rights of trade and investment which would not be derived from people's equal human rights, one misuses the meaning of the word "right" - as if dead wares, money, factories, or corporations etc. could have rights which are not derived from universally equal economic human rights of equal human beings.

Rights of economic activities (like exchange or investment) exist thus as derived from economic human rights - and only to the extent how far economic exchange or investment promote the realisation of economic rights; the rights to work, food, health, housing, etc. as human rights.

What is 'economic' in terms of rights? What are rights in respect to economy ? What is economic activity which has right as being economic?

Activity is economic compliant to how it sustains life (and what is necessary for life and subsistence/ livelihood) - realising equal economic human rights that are basis for people's rights in economy.

3. Economic rights must be thus rights of human beings - also as the realisation of human rights duly presupposes certain type of economic activity.

Rights to activities as economic activities are thus rights to sustain life and livelihood to fulfill basic economic human rights as equal for all.

As far as there can be rights of trade, investment or corporations, such rights are essentially economic rights.

The purpose which trade and such related economic activities "should serve is the objective of human well - being to which the international human rights instruments give legal expression." (CESCR Statement to the Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, 26 November 1999, paragraph 5 - 6)

II. It is thus equally important not just to set limits from outside but to challenge and change the inner structure of the corporate activity - by requiring the rights of economic exchange and investment not only to be limited by human rights but also to be derived from human rights - from promoting "human well - being to which the international human rights instruments give legal expression." (CESCR Statement to the Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, 26 November 1999, paragraph 5 - 6)

This becomes currently in an alarming way all the more important becomes currently in an alarming way all the more important because whereas the relation of the trade and investment agreements to the obligations of states under the human rights agreements has been left usually non - defined in trade and investment agreements when states have been agreeing such new agreements, now however at the same time when the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was signed between Canada and the EU, they signed also "EU - Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement", which determines CETA to be related to the human rights agreements in the following way explicitly subordinating and undermining human rights under the rights of foreign investors secured by the CETA investment court system.

EU - Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement subordinates and undermines human rights under the rights of foreign investors by saying about "respect for democratic principles, human rights and fundamental freedoms" that the parties shall "uphold these rights and principles in their own policies" but only to the extent that: Only when CETA investments would "constitute a 'particularly serious and substantial violation" of democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms - like "a coup d'État or grave crimes that threaten the [...] security and well - being of the international community" only then CETA could be terminated compliant to how CETA's "provisions of but only Chapter Eight (Investment) shall continue to be effective for a period of 20 years after the date of termination of this Agreement in respect of investments made before that date." (EU - Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement articles 1 - 2 and 28 and CETA article 30.9)

So if the CETA rights for foreign investments which force states to pay enormous amounts to foreign investors thus violate human rights and destroy democracy like "a coup d'État" type of threat to "peace, security and well - being of the international community", such rights of investors shall continue to rule at least 20 years more !