CIAO DATE: 08/2012
July 2012
Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
By means of Resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011, the UN Human Rights Council has created a Working Group with the mission of implementing the UN “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework and its Guiding Principles. As part of its activities, the Working Group asked for input from stakeholders and convened a meeting with them, which took place in Geneva on 20 January 2012. The UN Framework and Guiding Principles on business and human rights outline what States and business enterprises should do to make sure that human rights are respected by business, and to ensure that those whose rights have been adversely affected by business activity have access to effective remedies. By means of different sources of information, mostly from the UN itself, this note analyses the origins of the Framework, the Guiding Principles as well as the Working Group and includes, as the Note’s Annex I, the document presented to the Working Group by the Grupo de Estudios de Derecho Internacional Privado y los Derechos Humanos, whose members are listed below, as input on the lines of work which should be adopted by the Working Group.
Resource link: Business and Human Rights: Proposals from the Research Group on Private International Law and Human Rights [PDF] - 628K