Business & Human Rights

  • EU Proposal Expands Disclosure on Corporate Taxes

    July 19, 2016

    CCH Daily describes proposals from the European Commission that will require companies to disclose to EU member states their "beneficial ownership" of companies that could be used for tax avoidance and that will place pressure on so-called "tax havens" outside the EU to implement global standards on corporate taxation.

  • Symposium Article Calls for BHR Arbitration

    July 19, 2016

    As part of an online symposium hosted by the Harvard International Law Journal, attorneys Claes Cronstedt and Robert Thompson call for the extension of existing international arbitration bodies and standards to pressure corporations to bind themselves to arbitration decisions on the UN's business and human rights agenda.

  • NGO Network Asserts Rights Obligations in Tax Policy

    July 19, 2016

    The nongovernmental organization network RightingFinance has published the fourth portion of its summary of the findings of a UN special rapporteur describing countries' human rights obligations to prevent corporations from avoiding taxation in order to help pay for the fulfillment of the global economic, social, and cultural rights agenda.

  • NGOs Hold Seminar on Enforcing BHR Treaty

    July 18, 2016

    A group of nongovernmental organizations recently held a "legal seminar" in Brussels to discuss potential enforcement mechanisms for "access to justice" under a binding, global business and human rights treaty that is currently under negotiation at the UN.

  • UN Body Calls on UK to Tighten BHR Liability

    July 18, 2016

    Dr. Nadia Bernaz of Middlesex University School of Law describes an unprecedented report from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights calling on the UK to establish, as part of its national action plan to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, legal liability for corporations violating the BHR agenda in foreign countries.

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