How might private companies impact on the enjoyment of human rights? How familiar are you with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Let’s explore.
Reading: the UN Security Council and Human Rights
- "Business and human rights – a brief introduction", Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
- International Council on Human Rights Policy, Beyond voluntarism – human rights and the developing international legal obligations of companies, 2002, Ch. II, IV and V, pp. 7-19, 45-76.
- United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – Implementing the United Nations “protect, respect, remedy” framework
- Also Explore this interactive guide to the UN Guiding Principles
- Human Rights Watch, "Without rules – a failed approach to corporate accountability”, in World Report 2013
