Collection(s) : Collection genevoise
Paru le 29/06/2021 | Broché XIX-469 pages
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In the framework of its 26th session in June 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted resolution A/HRC/ RES/26/9, « Elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights ». This proposal contained a mandate to create an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the task to begin a negotiation to set rules on an issue that has been elusive in the international agenda.
While acknowledging that transnational corporations bring foreign direct investment, trade, and technology transfer, especially to developing countries, in exchange, they enjoy advantages, such as legal protection through national provisions, and bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements. However, this protective shield rarely takes into consideration human rights, environ- mental, or labor issues, leaving victims of corporate abuses in a disadvantageous and unfair position when they have to claim for their rights.
This work deals with some of the most relevant legal, political, and diplomatic topics of this debate, from the view of an insider of the first stages of one of the most ambitious multilateral current nego- tiation processes in the field of international human rights law. History will show to what extent societies are prepared to move forward and to place human dignity at the center of the interna- tional debate, and to privilege human rights over other kinds of interests.
