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“The End Of The Beginning?” A Comprehensive Look At The U.N.’S Business And Human Rights Agenda From A Bystander Perspective, Jena Martin Amerson
“The End Of The Beginning?” A Comprehensive Look At The U.N.’S Business And Human Rights Agenda From A Bystander Perspective, Jena Martin Amerson
Jena Martin Amerson
Abstract With the endorsement of Special Representative John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles regarding the issue of business and human rights, an important chapter of this subject has come to a close. Beginning with the then U.N. Secretary General’s “global compact” speech in 1999, the international legal framework for business and human rights has undergone tremendous change and progress. Yet, for all these developments, there has been no exhaustive examination in the legal academy of all of these events; certainly there is no one piece that discusses or analyzes all the major instruments that have been proposed and endorsed by the U.N. …