Un guiding principles on business and human rights: Making headway towards real corporate accountability?

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-163

  Jägers, Nicola ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79960951485     PISSN: 01693441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016934411102900201     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. HRC, The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy'Framework, UN Doc. A/HRC/17/31, 21 March 2011. The Guidelines can be found in the appendix of this issue.
2. Documents relating to the work of the SRSG can be found at the special portal of the website www.business-humanrights.org.
3. UNGA, Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights, UN Doc. A/HRC/8/5, 7 April 2008.
4. UN Doc. A/HRC/17/31, supra note 1, para. 13 (emphasis added).
5. Ibidem, Commentary to Guiding Principle 2.
6. See for a lucid analysis of this issue, see Mares, Radu, 'A gap in the corporate responsibility to respect human rights', forthcoming in Monash University Law Review, Vol. 36, [No. 2], 2011.
7. UN Doc. A/HRC/17/31, supra note 1, Principle 29 according to which non-judicial grievance mechanisms should be: legitimate; accessible, predictable; equitable; transparent; rights-compatible; a source of continuous learning and based on engagement and dialogue.