Empty Rituals or Workable Models?: Towards a Business and Human Rights Treaty

Claire Methven O'Brien; Jolyon Ford

Empty Rituals or Workable Models? Towards a Business and Human Rights Treaty

Dundee Law School

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Abstract

Within the still-emerging field of business and human rights (‘BHR’), the question of whether a treaty is required in order meaningfully to address BHR ‘governance gaps’ is one that is attracting renewed advocacy, commentary and diplomatic activity. By contrast, when the United Nations (‘UN’) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (‘UNGPs’) were first adopted in 2011, the balance of opinion amongst duty-bearers appears to have been that this issue should be set aside.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1223-1248
Journal	University of New South Wales Law Journal
Volume	40
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

business and human rights
Treaty regimes
treaty compliance
governance and regulation
Human Rights

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