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21 Sep 2016

Author:
Andrea Saldarriaga & Andrea Shemberg, LSE Investment & Human Rights Project

Implementing the State duty to protect human rights in investment policy

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Now is the right time to focus our minds on what States should be doing to implement their duty to protect human rights (DtP) in the context of investment policymaking. A number of national action plans (NAPs) are being developed to chart implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights (UNGPs) including in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Mexico, Chile, Indonesia and Malaysia. The UK government is in the midst of revising its existing NAP. At the same time, momentum is growing worldwide for meaningful reform of investment policy at the domestic and international levels, and the world has embraced a new agenda on sustainable development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will need to be fuelled in part by an increase in foreign direct investment (FDI)...

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