"Global Economy, Global Rights – A Practitioners’ Guide for interpreting human rights obligations in the global economy", 12 Sep 2014

This report synthesizes and analyses the interpretation of extraterritorial obligations(ETOs) in the context of corporate human rights violations from the perspectiveof United Nations (UN) treaty bodies. The resource is built on the concludingobservations of UN treaty bodies issued between 2007 and 2014, as well as thegeneral comments issued by UN treaty bodies from 2000 onwards. This overview ofthe practice of interpreting and implementing ETOs by United Nations human rightstreaty bodies (‘UN treaty bodies’) is designed to support and inform the activities ofhuman rights stakeholders, particularly UN special procedure mandate holders, treatybodies and other agencies.