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14 Aug 2013, 7:09 am by Larry Catá Backer
This notion reflects emerging consensus at the international level around the responsibilities of enterprises for the human rights effects of their activities. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 2:42 pm
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was codified in international law through the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, both of 1966. [read post]
9 Sep 2016, 8:54 am
 If only for a relative brief periods between the end of the First World War and the first decades of the 21st Century, there was a certain stability in the basic premises of corporate law within an international system grounded in the supremacy of states (discussed in Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law). [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 7:16 pm
This is despite the reality of transnational corporations’ (TNCs) increasing involvement in ‘new governance’ architectures in the field of international human rights as regulatory actors and agents of change. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 7:46 pm
In 2014, the UN Human Rights Council established an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises (IGWG) with respect to human rights, and mandated the working group to “elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 9:32 am
., China, Europe and Australia gathered together to speak to emerging issues of corporate law. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 2:45 pm
Amnesty International and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre have produced an important intervention in the contemporaneity debates about the nature and scope of corporate obligation with respect to human rights. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 7:07 pm
 Pix Credit hereFor the last four years I have been developing a semester long course (directed primarily to law students and graduate students in international affairs) on Corporate Social Responsibility Law and Policy. [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 7:23 am
I am delighted to announce the publication of  Accountability, International Business Operations and the Law: Providing Justice for Corporate Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains" (Liesbeth Enneking, Ivo Giesen, Anne-Jetske Schaap, Cedric Ryngaert, Francois Kristen, Lucas Roorda, eds.) [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 12:28 am by Katitza Rodriguez
Now we know that basic human rights are being violated due to a wide system of mass surveillance which simply is incompatible with a free and democratic society. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 3:48 pm
The meeting is intended to better coordinate and harmonize the work of special procedures, and for mandate-holders to address topical issues, and exchange views with States, the President of the Human Rights Council, regional human rights organisations, national human rights institutions, representatives from OHCHR and UN entities, and civil society organisations. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 4:10 am by Simon Lester
The conference is organised by the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) in collaboration with the International Law Forum and other sponsors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 4:30 am by Simon Lester
The conference is organised by the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) in collaboration with the International Law Forum and other sponsors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [read post]