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Series 16 June 2021: UN Guiding Principles at 10
The UNWG calls on states and businesses to use the anniversary moment to recommit and set clear implementation goals for the coming years, to increase the pace of implementation on the scale needed to deliver impact toward 2030 and beyond.
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Series The Quiet Radicalism of the Responsibility to Respect
Francis West from Shift on the striking progress and untapped potential of the UNGPs ten years later
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Post Fighting back against the use of litigation to quash dissent
Powerful entities are abusing the legal system to silence human rights defenders and communities who speak out against corporate abuse to protect our rights and shared environment.
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Post Colombia: The role of business during social protests - challenges & opportunities
Business has a responsibility during times of social upheaval, as the current situation in Colombia highlights. Most obviously they must ensure their practices, policies or products are not being used to legitimise or carry out abuses against those peacefully demanding their rights, writes Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.
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Series Towards a social economy: The next generation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
The UNGPs should ensure globalisation becomes a positive force for change, writes Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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Series Right to self-determination and land rights must be central in struggle for a Just Recovery
As COVID-19 wreaks devastation across the globe, States are justifying destructive development projects in the name of bolstering their battered economies, write Binota Moy Dhamai, AIPP & Joie Chowdhury, ESCR-Net. Land-related violations in the name of development are a widespread and longstanding practice affecting a wide range of human rights. But if we are serious about delivering a just and equitable transition and recovery, Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination must be enforced, alongside strengthened land-related rights and participation rights of land-dependent communities.
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Series The UN Guiding Principles at 10: Scaling up investor action on human rights
Widespread implementation of the UNGPs will continue to be stymied unless investor respect for human rights is sped and scaled up, writes Anita Ramasastry on the UNGPs 10+ report "Taking stock of investor implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights".
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Series Advancing business respect for human rights in conflict-affected areas through the UNGPs
Heeding the UNGPs’ call for enhanced human rights due diligence in conflict-affected areas, Heartland Initiative has developed the Rights Respecting Investment in CAHRA methodology.
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Series The UN Guiding Principles at 10: An investor perspective
Danielle Essink from Robeco on how investors can move forward to ensure that the next decade will be focused on global implementation of the Guiding Principles and create better outcomes for people.
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