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Reflections Day 2 ("What is to be Done?"): United Nations OHCHR Forum for Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017)

2 Dec 2017, 2:56 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [read post]

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The 2014 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, "Advancing Business and Human Rights Globally: Alignment, Adherence and Accountability)

8 Nov 2014, 3:02 pm

”The Background, Preliminary Program and Concept Note follow:(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)BackgroundThe relationship between business and human rights has become an issue that States and businesses worldwide cannot ignore. [read post]

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Understanding Social Credit as Structure and Method With Global Dimension: Comments on Flora Sapio ("The Many Facets of Social Credit)" and Mara Hvistendahl ("Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking")

15 Dec 2017, 2:09 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)Western commentators and academics have begun to focus on Chinese Social Credit. [read post]

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Part 26 (Party Building--Follow the CCP Basic Line) --On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

30 Sep 2015, 8:03 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]

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The (In)visible State: Congressional-Executive Commission on China "Chairs Urge Robust Use of Global Magnitsky Tools to Punish Human Rights Violators in China"

1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)One of the great innovations in international relations in this century has been the continuing erosion of the concept of autonomy of the state as a singular and apex construct of political power. [read post]

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Part 25 (Party Building--The CCP as a Productive Force) --On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

29 Sep 2015, 5:40 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]

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11-Flora Sapio on the Zero Draft of a Legally Binding Instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprise (Article 5 Jurisdiction)

13 Dec 2018, 7:17 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018; Musée Ariana, porcelain figures Meissen 1725-1730 )Flora Sapio (Comments on the "Zero-Draft"), and I (Making Sausages? [read post]

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Venkatesh Nayak on Death Sentencing in India 1998-2013

10 Jul 2015, 12:58 pm

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi, has requested the circulation of the following research report, which he prepared, entitled, Award of Death Sentences and Commutations of Life Imprisonment: Analysis of Statistical Trends in India Based on Prison Statistics for the Years 1998-2013 (2015).The research report is described as a rapid… [read post]

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Roundtable: Coronavirus and International Affairs--Event Description; Concept Note; Call for Questions and Inputs

29 Feb 2020, 5:38 am

The Penn State School of International Affairs, Penn State Law, the Coalition for Peace and Ethics and the Network for International Affairs are delighted to sponsor a Roundtable: Coronavirus and International Affairs. [read post]

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Corruption and Investment--Chinese Company ZTE Corp. Excluded From Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment Universe

7 Jan 2016, 9:21 am

On 7 January 2016, the Norges Bank has decided to exclude the Chinese company ZTE Corporation, one of the world’s five largest producers of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, from the investment universe of the GPFG. [read post]

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Symposium on Business and Human Rights (BHR) Regulatory Initiatives Outside Europe: Part 9: Cristiane Lucena Carneiro and Nathalie Albieri Laureano --"Regulatory Initiatives on Business and Human Rights in Brazil – From the Domestic to the International and Back? "

20 Jun 2024, 7:46 am

I am posting and providing brief reflections on the essays that make up the excellent new online symposium organized by the marvelous Caroline Omari Lichuma and Lucas Roorda and appearing on the blog site of the Business and Human Rights Law Journal. [read post]

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Part 9: The Referendum in the Shadow of Cuban Socialist Democracy 1.0 (Caribbean Marxism's Socialist Democracy Series, Considering the Cuban Constitutional Project, From Communist Party to Popular Plebiscite)

17 Mar 2019, 7:28 pm

(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer 2019)In this post and those that follow we will begin to flesh out what we see as the great challenges of democracy in illiberal states, and the methods undertaken by the Caribbean (Cuban) form of Marxism Leninism, to meet those challenges. [read post]

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Shan Gao Two Essays: (1) "Comments on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence: An Urgently Needed Agenda" and (2) "Business AND Human Rights: will it be a lasting happy marriage?"

21 Jun 2018, 6:20 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)This post highlights two short essays produced by Shan Gao, a valued member of the research team at the Coalition for Peace and Ethics. [read post]

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Part 28 (Party Building--Serving the People; the "Mass Line") --On a Constitutional Theory for China--From the General Program of the Chinese Communist Party to Political Theory

2 Oct 2015, 11:19 am

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]

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Democracy Part 36: American Representative Democracy in an Age Beyond the State

4 Jul 2016, 7:35 pm

(Pix from Great Seal of the United States, State Symbols USA)For American Independence Day I have gotten into the habit of considering questions touching on the essence of American political ideology (e.g., Ruminations 56: On Symbols in American Political Ideology--From Russian Imperial Anthems to Confederate Battle Flags, Marriage, Legislature, and Statute; Ruminations 52: Surmizing Liberty and Equality in American Political Ideology; Democracy Part 28/Ruminations 51: On the Contradiction of… [read post]

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Text of Remarks: "Chinese Entrepreneurs as a leading force for new quality productive forces innovation" [致辞中国企业家是新高质量生产力创新的引领力量] Delivered at the Wenzhou Entrepreneurs Forum: Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of New Quality Productive Forces (2 September 2024)

4 Sep 2024, 6:57 pm

Wenzhou Entrepreneurs Forum: Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of New Quality Productive Forces Larry Catá Backer (白轲) W. [read post]

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Two Calls for Papers From Karin Buhmann (Copenhagen Business School) on Issues in Business and Human Rights

6 May 2017, 8:08 am

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Elements of Law 3.0 Notes of Readings: I-C (What is Law? Law Articulated by Legislatures: Statutory Law)

26 Aug 2013, 7:12 pm by Larry Catá Backer

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [read post]

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Complaint Procedures of the U.N. Human Rights Council--Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

12 Jun 2014, 6:23 am

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014)The UN Human Rights Council has recently release a set of "Frequently Asked Questions" on the Complaint Procedure of the Human Rights Council, available in all the six UN official languages. [read post]

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Ruminations 64: Can Pragmatism Be Principled? With Application to the Elaboration to Comprehensive Treaty for Business and Human Rights

3 Sep 2016, 8:18 pm

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In 2014, the UN Human Rights Council established an open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises 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]

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