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Corporate Obligations Under The Human Right To Water, Jernej Letnar Cernic
Corporate Obligations Under The Human Right To Water, Jernej Letnar Cernic
Jernej Letnar Černič
Almost a billion people do not have access to clean and safe water. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation is increasingly being considered a fundamental human right. Corporations play an important role in the realization of the right to water. For example, they can become violators of the right to water where their activities deny access to clean and safe water or where water prices increase without warning. Corporations can have a positive or negative impact on the human rights of individuals, wider communities and indigenous peoples. This paper argues that corporations bear a certain responsibility for the realization …
A Short Comment On The 2009 Report Of The Un Special Representative Of The Secretary-General On The Issue Of Human Rights And Transnational Corporations And Other Business Enterprises, Jernej Letnar Cernic
A Short Comment On The 2009 Report Of The Un Special Representative Of The Secretary-General On The Issue Of Human Rights And Transnational Corporations And Other Business Enterprises, Jernej Letnar Cernic
Jernej Letnar Černič
A short comment on the 2009 report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and Transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie to the United Nations Human Rights Council, “Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the “protect, respect and remedy” framework” AH/HRC/8/5, 22 April 2009.