Abstract:
International regulation on overseas funding is one field of international law which governs
the treatment of overseas investor and its investments in the territory of host nation.
Bilateral investment treaties are the primary sources of international investment law, and it
imposes the bulk of worldwide duties upon host States. By contrast, investors and home States
have few, worldwide obligations. Global investment agreements, with few exceptions, have
been completely targeted on developing rights for investors and legal obligations for host states.
The proliferations of bilateral funding treaty have raised concerns over the extent to
which international investment agreements is actually fair and capable to balance the interests of
foreign investors and host States. The goal of this paper is to have a look at the balance of rights
and obligations among the major actors under Ethiopian bilateral investment treaties. Through a
comparative doctrinal evaluation, the thesis findings display that investors have enjoy significant
rights consisting of national treatment, fair and equitable treatment, and MFN treatments under
Ethiopian bilateral investment treaties, but conversely, do not have any binding obligations and it
gives little opportunities to hold foreign investors responsible for the ones human rights,
environmental, and labour rights violations which can be pertinent to investment. A probable
way forward is the negotiation of a new generation of investment treaties, in addition to the
renegotiation and revision of the present ones. Those changes are required in order to balance the
rights and obligations of the major actors under Ethiopian Bilateral investment treaties. And the
writer argued that the rights and obligations of host states and investors should be balanced in the
interests of both. And in order to create a better balance within Ethiopian bilateral investment
treaties, foreign investors should not simply have rights, but they ought to also assume
obligations to admire human rights, environmental, and labour standards in Ethiopia as a host
country. It is recommended that Ethiopia should to re-negotiate their present atypical BITs, to
balance the rights and obligations among the major actors of Ethiopian bilateral investment
