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Can Scope Make a Difference? Assessing the Reach of Due Diligence Laws in Supply Networks

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) laws seek to make companies legally accountable for adverse social and environmental impacts across their supply chains. Although jurisdictionally bounded, these laws rest on the assumption that their influence can extend globally through supply networks.
Vera Săvulescu, Luc Fransen
wiley   +1 more source

States, human rights, and distant strangers ::the normative justification of extraterritorial obligations in human rights law /

, 2023
This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad—states’ extraterritorial human rights obligations.
Müller, Angela, Müller, Angela,
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Aligning Transnational due Diligence: The EU Deforestation Regulation and Brazil's Fragmented Beef Governance

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transnational due diligence regulations, such as the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products (EUDR), are reshaping sustainability governance by transforming voluntary norms into binding global rules. Yet, their effectiveness depends on how well they align with domestic governance systems and on the power asymmetries that ...
John James Loomis, Khalid Nadvi, José Antônio Puppim de Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human rights law in the development of hydropower projects in transboundary context

Frontiers in Climate
Human rights obligations are owed by states to the individuals in their territory and under their jurisdiction and may also arise in extraterritorial contexts.
Mara Tignino, Diego Jara
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How Due Diligence Transforms Private Sustainability Governance: The Case of the Global Organic Textile Standard

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing awareness of social and environmental risks in global supply chains has driven a shift from voluntary corporate responsibility toward mandatory due diligence legislation. These emerging regulatory frameworks require businesses to identify, prevent, and mitigate adverse human rights and environmental impacts, thereby redefining the ...
Axel Marx, Kari Otteburn
wiley   +1 more source

EXTRATERRITORIAL OBLIGATIONS OF STATES ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS

Homa Publica, 2019
The work in question therefore aims to analyze the extraterritorial obligations of International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) Contracting Parties in the context of development cooperation operations that could jeopardize the ...
Dimitris Liakopoulos
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Through the Looking Glass: Corporate Actors and Environmental Harm Beyond the ILC

Göttingen Journal of International Law, 2020
Corporate activities take place in a variety of social contexts, including in countries affected by armed conflict. Whether corporations are physically present in these regions or merely do business with partners from conflict zones, there is an ...
Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, Saskia Wolters
doaj   +1 more source

The extraterritorial human rights obligations of states [PDF]

, 2008
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and European Convention on Human Rights impose obligations on states parties to respect and ensure the rights of persons subject to or within their "jurisdiction". Yet the meaning of "jurisdiction"
King, Hugh
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The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
wiley   +1 more source

[Retracted Article] Extraterritorial obligations of States on economic, social, cultural rights and development operations

Homa Publica, 2019
The Editorial Team of Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas - has proceeded to retract the research because the scientific article has been published by another scientific journal, (ii) terms identified plagiarism in the ...
Dimitris Liakopoulos
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