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UN Working Group Seeks BHR Data from Businesses, States
November 05, 2015
In a report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") issues highlighted the challenge of measuring corporate and state implementation of the BHR agenda and has called for more reporting from governments and businesses on how they are integrating the UN Guiding Principles on BHR in their policies.
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Academic Calls for Global Business Regulation on "Right to Water"
November 05, 2015
In a recently published book chapter, Markus Krajewski of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Law School argues that international standards and legal instruments regulating multinational businesses to protect the right to water is an "increasingly important" aspect of global economic governance.
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Paper: Tax Debate Leads to Unrealistic Expectations
November 04, 2015
The Center for Global Development has published a paper concluding that the "polarised" debate between businesses and human-rights activists has led to "exaggerated" expectations of how much corporate taxes can contribute to the development agendas of poor countries and calling for a collaborative dialogue on how to improve tax transparency.
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Summary: Binding BHR Treaty May Be Counterproductive
November 04, 2015
An article from Donald Robertson at the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills summarizes past and upcoming work on developing a binding treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") issues and discusses concerns from some observers that such a treaty could be more difficult to implement than the current, nonbinding UN Guiding Principles on BHR.
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NGOs Seek Footholds for Climate Litigation
November 04, 2015
An article based on discussions with environmental litigation NGO ClientEarth and a member of staff of the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment explains how litigation may be used to stymie companies in the energy industry from contributing to climate change, including through human-rights lawsuits and complaints regarding fossil-fuel investment decisions.
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