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Article Seeks "Mandatory Regime" for BHR Liability
December 08, 2015
An article by Professor Emeritus Upendra Baxi proposes that some basic treaty obligations to prevent multinational corporations from causing "mass disasters" grow into a "mandatory regime of multinational liability" for violations of the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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Academic Seeks Moral Basis of Corporate BHR Respect
December 07, 2015
In a recent article, Professor Emerita Patricia Werhane seeks to reconcile the argument that corporations are not "moral persons" with calls for corporate "respect" of the UN business and human rights ("BHR") agenda by finding that businesses have "secondary moral agency as organizations."
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Journal Reviews BHR "Best Practices" and Developments
December 07, 2015
A group of academics has launched a Business and Human Rights ("BHR") Journal with Cambridge University Press that they hope will serve as "the leading forum for scholarly articles in the BHR field."
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Mandate Holders Seek AIIB Implementation of UN Standards
December 07, 2015
A report from a group of UN human-rights mandate holders calls for the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB") to do more to implement global human-rights standards, such as the UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Lending and Borrowing and the Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, in the AIIB's draft Environmental and Social Framework.
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Attorney Warns of BHR Treaty Noncompliance
December 04, 2015
Lawyer Bellinda Chinowawa writes that advocates of a binding UN business and human rights ("BHR") treaty should temper their expectations of government compliance with such an instrument and should instead focus their efforts on local-level work toward BHR regulation.
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