The Proposed Business and Human Rights Treaty: Four Challenges and an Opportunity

[View PDF version] By Sara McBrearty* In 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) established an open-ended working group to develop “an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”[1] The UNHRC initiated the treaty process in response to a call from Ecuador … Continue reading The Proposed Business and Human Rights Treaty: Four Challenges and an Opportunity