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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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Beyond the Ritual of Treaties as Gestures
24.06.2022
A framework convention approach to the regulatory management of the human rights and sustainability effects of economic activity holds much promise. Defined as an international instrument establishing a general governance...
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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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How to Avoid Politicised Monitoring?
23.06.2022
It is one thing to draft international laws that protect individuals, but quite another to ensure their implementation and compliance by State parties. Taking into consideration existing framework conventions, particularly...
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Oops! They Did It Again
22.06.2022
When they finally joined negotiations on the proposed business and human rights (BHR) treaty, the USA immediately called for ‘exploring alternative[s]’ to the current draft, including a potential framework convention. In...
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Bounded Rationality, Metonymy, Humility
22.06.2022
History does not stop, a truth of which recent years have provided a gruesome reminder. Trajectories of globalising production and exchange that were widely perceived as uninterruptable have, since 2019,...
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Caught between Principles and Perfectionism
21.06.2022
One of the driving forces behind the movement towards a legally binding instrument on business and human rights (BHR) has been the need for effective remedies for victims of corporate...
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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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Unpacking the Potentials of a Framework Agreement on Business and Human Rights
20.06.2022
In a context of mounting evidence of adverse impacts of business activities on human rights and the environment, the Business and Human Rights (BHR) legal framework has gained momentum in...
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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
Framing Business & Human Rights?
20.06.2022
Justine Batura
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Michael Riegner
Business and human rights (BHR), as an emerging field of modern law and legal research, is at an inflection point. On the one hand, its most prominent set of norms,...
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