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  The Zero Draft of the Proposed Business and Human Rights Treaty, Part II: On the Right Track, but Not Ready Yet

  14 Aug 2018 Surya Deva, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong

  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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  The Zero Draft of the Proposed Business and Human Rights Treaty, Part I: The Beginning of an End?

  14 Aug 2018 Surya Deva, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong

  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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  Another Step on the Road? What does the “Zero Draft” Treaty mean for the Business and Human Rights movement?

  13 Aug 2018 Phil Bloomer and Maysa Zorob, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

  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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• Dear Tourist, Will You Be Visiting for Business or Plunder?

  30 Jul 2018 Conniel Malek, Director, True Costs Initiative

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• Workers’ rights in the age of the super-supermarket

  11 Jul 2018 Joe Bardwell, Senior Officer – Communications & Corporate Accountability, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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• Building Accountability for Construction Workers' Rights in the Middle East: New Foundations

  3 Jul 2018 Mariam Bhacker and Alia Hindawi, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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• The Scandal of The Plastic Bag: Killing our environment one transaction at a time

  2 Jul 2018 Conniel Malek, Director, True Costs Initiative

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• Why a binding treaty is necessary: the UN complaint mechanism's lack of teeth on pesticides management

  11 Jun 2018 Carolijn Terwindt & Christian Schliemann, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights

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• When national laws or local practices conflict with human rights: Recommendations for global operations and supply chains

  11 Jun 2018 Lise Smit, Associate Senior Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights at BIICL, and Gabrielle Holly, Researcher in Business and Human Rights at BIICL

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• Speaking up against the license to kill: The role of business when human rights leverage on governments is limited

  1 Jun 2018 Christian Schliemann & Carolijn Terwindt, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

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