Post-COP27 Thoughts on Greening the Cape Town Convention
13.03.2023
In June 2022, the governing council of UNIDROIT, a Rome-based intergovernmental organization with the objective to harmonize international private law across countries through uniform rules, discussed proposals for their upcoming...
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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
A Framework Agreement in Business and Human Rights?
24.06.2022
Surya Deva
Claire Methven O'Brien
Michael Riegner
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Justine Batura
We are pleased to conclude our Symposium with a special treat for our readers: a double interview with two renowned scholars, Surya Deva and Claire Methven O’Brien, who are rather emblematic for different approaches...
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Resisting Corporate Capture
23.06.2022
In 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 26/9, which established, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, an intergovernmental body charged with the responsibility to...
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The Short Arm of the Law and the Long Arm of Economics
21.06.2022
How does the idea of Business and Human Rights framework agreements (BHR framework agreements) look from an African perspective and – more specifically from one aware of the growing impact...
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Vaccine Apartheid and the Unlikely Overcoming of the Pandemic by 2023
04.05.2021
The most important challenge for humanity is to end the pandemic within two years. However, as the largest vaccination rollout in history begins, it is doubtful that this goal will...
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