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Post Victims’ Rights under the Second Revised Draft Treaty on Business & Human Rights
How does the 2020 Draft compare to the 2019 Revised Draft and what does it mean for the rights and protection of victims of corporate abuse? Maysa Zorob from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre takes us through the provisions relating to the scope, jurisdiction and applicable legal framework, as well as broader access to justice and remedy considerations.
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Post Progress in the Newest UN Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights
In this opinion piece, Doug Cassel, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, provides an overview of key changes in the Second Revised Draft of a binding treaty on business and human rights. Cassel argues that the draft, though not ready for adoption, includes significant improvements from previous versions and is ripe for serious, good faith negotiation.
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Series Key legal obstacles around jurisdiction for victims seeking justice remain in the Revised Draft treaty
“...the Revised Draft still fails to clearly remove key legal obstacles faced by victims of corporate abuses..."
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Series The Revised Draft: Access to judicial remedy for victims of multinationals' abuse
“the legal and factual complexity... of these cases, and the might of the opposition, mean that victims require specialist legal representation and technical experts to pursue such cases”
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Series A Progressing Approach on Conflict-Affected Settings and Situations of Occupation
“[A legally binding instrument] should…be developed further…to counter corporate abuses and complicity in grave breaches and international crimes…”
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Series Legal liability for business human rights abuses under the revised draft of a treaty on business and human rights
“…the value of this article (Article 6.7 of the Revised Draft) is that it operates as an extension of the application to business corporations (legal entities) of a series of crimes under international law.”
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Series A new draft Business and Human Rights treaty and a promising direction of travel
“…it is not clear whether a parent company would be liable for the human rights harms caused or contributed to by a subsidiary.”
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Series Five ways the new draft treaty on business and human rights can be strengthened
"Substantively and diplomatically, the new draft is an enormous improvement over the “zero draft” released a year earlier"
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