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Series The Zero Draft Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights: Small Steps along the Irresistible Path to Corporate Accountability
Looking at the zero draft through the lens of how such an instrument can contribute to a green and peaceful future, there are still limitations that must be addressed.
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Series The “Zero Draft”: Access to judicial remedy for victims of multinationals’ (“MNCs”) abuse
If effectively translated into national laws, the provisions of the Zero Draft would lower the legal and procedural barriers to MNC parent company liability.
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Series The Draft UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights: the Triumph of Realism over Idealism
The Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights stays clear of controversy surrounding corporate human rights obligations and criminal responsibility under international law.
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Series Comments on the “Zero Draft” Treaty on Business & Human Rights
A truly foundational challenge for the proposed treaty is how to define and operationalize "business activities of a transnational character".
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Series Justice not “special attention”: Feminist Visions for the Binding Treaty
Without a transformative shift in the way that gender equality, women’s human rights and gender justice concerns are articulated, a truly transformative framework to end corporate abuse will not be achieved.
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Series The Zero Draft of the Proposed Business and Human Rights Treaty, Part I: The Beginning of an End?
Neither voluntary initiatives alone nor measures merely at national level will ever be adequate to regulate effectively the conduct of today’s businesses.
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Series The Zero Draft of the Proposed Business and Human Rights Treaty, Part II: On the Right Track, but Not Ready Yet
Neither voluntary initiatives alone nor measures merely at national level will ever be adequate to regulate effectively the conduct of today’s businesses.
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Series Another Step on the Road? What does the “Zero Draft” Treaty mean for the Business and Human Rights movement?
The continued implementation of the UNGPs and the development of a binding Treaty can and should advance simultaneously, and both stand to benefit from doing so.
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