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Business and Human Rights - The Role of National Human Rights Institutions

Business and Human Rights - The Role of National Human Rights Institutions

The potential of trans-national NHRI cooperation and the European action plan on business and human rights.

In times of immense economic and social challenges with business activities becoming ever more transnational, corporate action has more power than ever before to affect human rights, both positively and negatively.

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) have committed themselves, as affirmed in the ICC’s 2010 Edinburgh Declaration, to integrate business and human rights into their strategies and activities at international, regional, and national level to support the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles.

Since 2010, workshops on business and human rights have taken place at the regional levels of the ICC and four regional action plans have been
developed in which they mark the ‘end of the beginning’ of the integration of business and human rights into NHRI action.

The publication is co-written with the German Institute for Human Rights.

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