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Enforceable Human Rights Treaties for Corporations May Become Reality

Last week the Human Rights Council concluded its 26th session, during which it adopted 34 texts. One of these texts was resolution A/HRC/26/L.22/Rev.1, by which the HRC decided to establish an intergovernmental...

by The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee

Last week the Human Rights Council concluded its 26th session, during which it adopted 34 texts. One of these texts was resolution A/HRC/26/L.22/Rev.1, by which the HRC decided to establish an intergovernmental working group on a legally binding instrument for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. This working group has a clear mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.

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