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Podcast: Beyond a Declaration – What Rights Can Do
New podcast series looking into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its 75th anniversary. The series of four episodes was produced by RLS Geneva in collaboration with Bubblegum Club.
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Report on the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights
From October 23 to 27, 2023, 76 states met for the ninth time at the United Nations Human Rights Council to negotiate an international human rights treaty to regulate companies and their supply chains (also known as the “UN Treaty”).
Tags: human rights, un, UN Treaty, united nations
Gender Justice In The Global Economic System
In this new briefing of our series about the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights in collaboration with the Global Policy Forum, Karolin Seitz highlights the potential of the draft agreement to translate the feminist foreign and development policy envisaged by the German government from theory into practice.
Tags: business and human rights, feminist foreign policy, germany, global policy forum, human rights, un, UN Treaty, united nations
Want to Avoid Climate Disasters? Protect Environmental Defenders
Global South activists are at the frontlines of the fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground. If we want to avoid the unrelenting impacts of the climate crisis, we must drastically step up our efforts in protecting the human rights of environmental defenders everywhere.
Tags: climate justice, environmental defenders, human rights
The Declaration of Human Rights and the Need for a Universal Enriched by Every Particular
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an instrument built through the discursive hegemony of the West. A decolonization exercise is essential to think a declaration that approaches the peripheries of the world and the experience of the peoples in struggle.
Tags: decolonization, human rights, UDHR, UDHR75
Fighting Inequality: The untapped Potential of Human Rights
The “age of human rights”, says legal historian Samuel Moyn, has been “kindest to the rich”. It is hard to argue otherwise, with a staggering rise in economic inequality between the haves and have-nots coinciding with the expansion of human rights discourse over the past 50 years. This trend shows no sign of abating. Since 2020, […]
Tags: human rights, inequality, UDHR, UDHR75, un, united nations
Overcoming the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Conundrum
A truly human rights-based approach to international development cooperation has the potential to usher in new cooperative arrangements among countries and peoples.
Tags: Debt, Doha Program of Action, DPoA, FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, human rights, LDCs
Options for a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights
In 2014, Ecuador and South Africa initiated a resolution to create a human rights treaty to regulate the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises. Since 2015, the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises (OEIGWG) has met three times to discuss the scope and content of the prospective […]
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The Struggle for a UN Treaty
Towards Global Regulation on Human Rights and Business Over the course of the last years, the international debate surrounding the environmental, social and human rights responsibilities of corporations has gained momentum. Not least, growing public criticism of transnational corporations and banks has contributed to this debate. The list of criticisms is long: Ever-new pollution scandals […]
Tags: business, human rights