In June 2014, three years after it endorsed the U. N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council moved to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights...

Like other states, Canada has eschewed a legal response to dealing with the problem of extractive companies' involvement in violations of human rights in their overseas activities. This is despite the fact that Canadian extractive companies have been the subject of an increasing number of...

The indispensable role that transnational corporations play as vehicles of foreign investment and economic development cannot be overemphasized. Developing countries, of which Nigeria is one, understand the impact of the activities of these corporations on their economic growth and development....

Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) are increasingly used as a default mechanism to address human rights challenges in a variety of industries. MSI is a designation that covers a broad range of initiatives from the very general (for example, the UN Global Compact) to those targeted at a single...

The adoption of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights represents a watershed moment in the business and human rights movement. Nevertheless, despite its achievements, the work to align business and human rights issues remains.One approach to furthering the work in this area...

We can no longer afford to bury our heads in the sand for we must appreciate the reality which is that private individuals and bodies such as clubs and companies wield great power over individual citizenry who should, as of necessity, be protected from such non-state bodies who may for instance...

Do corporations have human rights? This article addresses a to date rather understudied issue of the corporations and human rights debate: whether and to what extent corporations can be bearers of human rights, with a focus on the ECHR and ECtHR jurisprudence. In a nutshell, it argues that what...