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Submission To The Open Call For Input Regarding The Working Group’S Report On The Gender Lens To The Un Guiding Principles On Business And Human Rights, Sara Seck, Penelope Simons
Submission To The Open Call For Input Regarding The Working Group’S Report On The Gender Lens To The Un Guiding Principles On Business And Human Rights, Sara Seck, Penelope Simons
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In October 2017, we co-hosted a conference and policy meeting on the subject of extractive industries and the human rights of women and girls, at the Human Rights Resource Education Centre in Ottawa. This submission will reflect on some of the insights that emerged from the conference and policy meeting, as well as our own subsequent research. A selection of conference papers are forthcoming in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. We have inserted our submissions in response to some of the specific questions raised by the Working Group.
Corporate Law Tools And The Guiding Principles For Business And Human Rights, Sara Seck
Corporate Law Tools And The Guiding Principles For Business And Human Rights, Sara Seck
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This paper, written in 2012, provides a summary of the corporate law tools project undertaken as part of the mandate of Professor John Ruggie as Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. The author was one of the co-convenors of a multi-stakeholder consultation on corporate law tools held in 2009 and designed to inform the Ruggie mandate. This paper provides her assessment of the scope and limitations of this project, the extent to which it may have informed aspects of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and an agenda for future research.
Conceptualizing The Home State Duty To Protect Human Rights, Sara Seck
Conceptualizing The Home State Duty To Protect Human Rights, Sara Seck
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The Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights (SRSG) has identified the State duty to protect against human rights abuses by non-State actors, including business, as one of the fundamental pillars of the Framework for Business and Human Rights [Framework].1 The Framework “rests on differentiated but complementary responsibilities”, and is comprised of three “core principles”: the State duty to protect, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and the need for more effective access to remedies.2 However, the jurisdictional scope of the State duty to protect is disputed. According to the SRSG, international law provides that …