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Activities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises
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Business & Human Rights: Optimism And Concern From The U.S. Perspective, Christiana Ochoa
Business & Human Rights: Optimism And Concern From The U.S. Perspective, Christiana Ochoa
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Forty-five years passed between the release of the first major United Nations report referencing the need to regulate transnational corporations and the release of the Zero Draft. Those years were accompanied by vibrant scholarly work and debate, as well as a significant jurisprudence, corporate engagement, and civil society discourse and activism that, cumulatively, has resulted in a much better understanding of how the once very distinct ideas of “business” and “human rights” are now merged by an ampersand. The field of business & human rights signifies the introduction of polycentric governance and law that binds businesses, sometimes softly and sometimes …