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Struggling to Take Off?: The Second Session of Intergovernmental Negotiations on a Treaty on Business and Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2017

Carlos LOPEZ
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Keywords

treatyintergovernmental working grouptransnational corporationsresolution 26/9human rights
Type
Developments in the Field
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Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 2017 , pp. 365 - 370
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Carlos Lopez is Senior Legal Advisor at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the ICJ.

References

1 UN Document A/HRC/RES/26/9 (2014).

2 The written contributions can be found at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Session2/Pages/Session2.aspx (accessed 22 May 2017).

3 ‘Stop corporate abuse: we need rights for people and rules for business’, https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/stop-corporate-abuse (accessed 28 April 2017).

4 The adopted programme of work and other documents can be found at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Session2/Pages/Session2.aspx (accessed 12 March 2017).

5 Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights,2nd session, Geneva, 24–28 October 2016,Opening remarks, 24 October 2016, available at: https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-geneva/12928/hrc-open-ended-intergovernmental-working-group-transnational-corporations-and-other-business_en (accessed 12 May 2017); EU intervention for Day 4 under Panel V Subtheme 1: ‘Moving forward in the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’, 27 October 2016, https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-geneva/13272/hrc-open-ended-intergovernmental-working-group-transnational-corporations-and-other-business_en (accessed 12 May 2017).

6 Oral presentation by Ana María Suárez Franco – Los Principios de Maastricht sobre las Obligaciones Extraterritoriales de los Estados en el Área de los Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Session2/Pages/PanelII_1.aspx (accessed 28 April 2017).

7 Intervention by France, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Session2/Pages/PanelI.aspx (accessed 28 April 2017).

8 The Nature of Corporate Obligations, intervention by Professor David Bilchitz, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Session2/Pages/PanelIII_2.aspx (accessed 28 April 2017).

9 UN Document A/HRC/34/47 (4 January 2017), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G17/000/94/PDF/G1700094.pdf?OpenElement.