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Session 1 - The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

  • 06/07/2022 - 15:30 - 19:00
  • IE University Law School

Presentation

Key Concepts covered:

• The UN Guiding Principles’ three pillars:

     o Pillar I: State duty to protect
     o Pillar II: Business responsibility to respect
     o Pillar III: Access to remedy.

• States’ obligations and businesses’ responsibilities
• Human rights due diligence
• Leverage
• Value chain.

  • From Responsibility to Accountability: How Business and Human Rights is a Movement for Corporate Accountability
  • Moving from Soft to Hard Law in CSR and Business and Human Rights: Human Rights Due Diligence
  • Lawyers’ Role and Responsibilities in Connection with the UNGPs
  • Access to Remedies for Business-Related Human Rights Abuses: Private International Law Issues
  • The practical implications of the UNGPs for lawyers from the US, European and other countries

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