REDESCA of the IACHR publishes thematic report ‘Business and Human Rights: Inter-American Standards’
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...The Special Rapporteurship on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (REDESCA, by its initials in Spanish) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) publishes today its report on “Business and Human Rights: Inter-American Standards”. This report is based on the identification of the international obligations of States with regard to human rights in cases in which businesses are in some way involved in the realization or violation of such rights. In addition to systematizing and bringing together various pronouncements that have been made within the inter-American system in relation to the issue of business and human rights, the report also provides a systematic and evolving analysis that seeks to clarify, organize and develop these State obligations and the effects that may be generated on businesses in compliance with the inter-American legal experience...