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Human Rights Law

International law

2015

University of Washington School of Law

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White Paper: Options For A Treaty On Business And Human Rights, Anita Ramasastry, Douglass Cassell Jan 2015

White Paper: Options For A Treaty On Business And Human Rights, Anita Ramasastry, Douglass Cassell

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The United Nations Human Rights Council decided in June 2014 to establish an Intergovernmental Working Group to “elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.” The first meeting of the Working Group took take place in Geneva in July 2015. The Council did not further specify what sort of instrument should be drafted. The Center for Human Rights of the American Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales asked the present authors to prepare a “White Paper” on possible options for a treaty …