“Homa launches first of a series of papers about National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights”, 25 January, 2016

...The investigations for development of a series of papers about the National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights were motivated by the...need for a critical academic follow up of the process of elaboration of a NAP in Brazil...This series aims to contribute with the players involved in this process, that’s why it was named “National Action Plans on Human Rights and Business: Inputs for the Brazilian Reality”. According to the theoretical perspective of Homa, it was decided to place “Human Rights” before “Business” in the series’ title since we believe  that these plans should be developed by putting the Human Rights dimension first, rather than business and market demands...[T]he Centre looks forward to conduct critical research,...to provide an analysis about the social practices with potential for contributing to the reality’s transformation...[I]ts goal is to bring forth a general approach to the released NAPs, highlighting...problems and critics, aiming at the elaboration of a more objective instrument, capable of producing measurable, rateable and concrete results, gathering...civil society, social movements and victims of Human Rights violations...