The world is currently at an ebb for realizing the Right to Development (RtD). Weakening of multilateralism, de-globalization, the scars left by the COVID-19 pandemic, misinterpretation and dilution of the RtD, and inertia to reform international governance are among the multitude of reasons for...

The European Commission is planning a new regulation for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (Due Diligence Directive) as part of the Sustainable Corporate Governance initiative. The longawaited EU proposal is expected to have requirements that go far beyond the German Act on...

Die Studie untersucht den derzeitigen Umsetzungsstand der UN-BRK im Bereich schulische Inklusion in den deutschen Bundesländern. Sie liefert damit eine umfassende Strukturanalyse in diesem Bereich. Art. 24 der Konvention verpflichtet die Vertragsstaaten zur Gewährleistung eines inklusiven...

Im Januar 2022 werden die UN-Mitgliedstaaten Verhandlungen über ein globales Abkommen zur Bekämpfung der Cyberkriminalität aufnehmen. Mehr internationale Zusammenarbeit in diesem Bereich ist dringend geboten. Doch es gibt auch Risiken. So könnten vage Verpflichtungen, etwa zur Überwachung...

Ein Lieferkettengesetz soll die Pflichten von Unternehmen bei der Überwachung der sozialen und ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit in ihrer Lieferkette regeln. Der vorliegende Entwurf ist aber problematisch: Es fehlt den Unternehmen die erforderliche Transparenz ihrer Lieferketten und der Durchgriff...

Die Sicherung von ökologischen und sozialen Standards in Lieferketten steht im Blickpunkt der öffentlichen Debatten. Auf der politischen Agenda befindet sich insbesondere die Einführung eines Lieferkettengesetzes. Weniger im Fokus steht dabei, dass bereits eine schwer überschaubare Zahl von...

Freedom of Association is the bedrock of the workers’ right to form trade unions, join them freely, and it also guarantees that these organizations will be able to function without interference from public authorities. In 1972, Bangladesh ratified the ILO Convention concerning Freedom of...

This paper aims at investigating and scrutinizing prior literature of human rights disclosures, corporate governance mechanisms and their effect on firm performance in an attempt to unveil the influence of non-financial disclosures such as human rights on the corporation’s financial...

This research aims to analyze from a legal perspective and various epistemological frames, a paper refered to human rights, in relation to transhumanism and posthumanism. It will be taken as the central axis, the biotechnology, being more than an object but as an extension of the human body, in...

The notion of universal human rights, applicable to all and promoted as an answer to future global peace, security, and sustainability after World War Two, continues to be a work in progress in a deeply divided and unequal world. Attempts to establish international human rights standards and...

Health system financing is a critical factor in securing universal health care and achieving equity in access and payment. The human rights framework offers valuable guidance for designing a financing strategy that meets these goals. This article presents a rights-based approach to health care...

It is an inescapable fact that the relationship between business and human rights is inseparable especially in the current wave of globalization. The impacts of business activities on human rights cannot be understated just as is the importance of human rights to businesses. This relationship...

We can no longer afford to bury our heads in the sand for we must appreciate the reality which is that private individuals and bodies such as clubs and companies wield great power over individual citizenry who should, as of necessity, be protected from such non-state bodies who may for instance...

Compliance with human rights is an important element of health resilience, generating popular legitimacy and trust, legality and legal certainty, and favourable effects for the economy. Crucially, it will save lives when societies will be confronted with new pandemics.Comprehensive, structured...

Widows - both child and adult in Tanzania, as in many other parts of the world, face discrimination on a regular basis. Such discrimination commonly destroys a woman's ability to live a life outside of poverty. In the face of the suffering and injustice widows endure throughout Africa, and...

To meet its responsibility to respect human rights under the 2011 UN Guiding Principles and Business and Human Rights, a corporation must conduct human rights due diligence. To be effective, human rights due diligence must be embedded into corporate culture through effective leadership that is...

India was one of the leading countries to implement the initial lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but still, the lockdown failed and within a few months, India joined the list of countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic. Why did this transpire? What were the reasons abaft...

India was one of the leading countries to implement the initial lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but still, the lockdown failed and within a few months, India joined the list of countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic. Why did this transpire? What were the reasons abaft...

Since the dawn of human civilisation the corporate class has been a very influential position as far as the framing of law and policies of a nation is concerned. On the one hand, with the advent of industrialisation in Europe, the market economy was boosted, on the other hand, several cases of...

The discussion on the need for mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) requirements has permeated the interests of policy makers, civil society organizations and international organizations. The current trend on the adoption of domestic legislation concerning HRDD standards shows a variety...

Die Sicherung von ökologischen und sozialen Standards in Lieferketten steht im Blickpunkt der öffentlichen Debatten. Auf der politischen Agenda befindet sich insbesondere die Einführung eines Lieferkettengesetzes. Weniger im Fokus steht dabei, dass bereits eine schwer überschaubare Zahl von...

Most of the world’s natural resources can be found on the territories of indigenous peoples. This puts indigenous peoples in a position where they are not only subjected to environmental hazards as a result of the mining and exploitation of these resources, but are also denied the use and...

The research policy study examines the role of human rights and environmental due diligence legislation in protecting women migrant workers in global food supply chains. It considers in detail a recent proposal by the European Parliament for a European Directive on Corporate Due Diligence and...

In a global pandemic, it is commonplace to look toward global solutions for global issues. But the pandemic has highlighted how states cannot unilaterally counter complex threats that cross borders unseen. One lesson from the current COVID-19 pandemic is that states must cooperate not just...

The protection of the environment is a cornerstone of intergenerational justice and a main objective of national sustainable development institutions. Different approaches to the protection of the environment are possible. One approach is to consider the protection of the environment in its own...

In November 2010, the International Standardization Organization (ISO) published the ‘International Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility - ISO 26000’ (ISO 26000). ISO 26000 is a voluntary international standard that provides guidance to companies and other organizations on social...

At present no binding human rights instrument referring to an explicit right to water exists within the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) human rights legal framework. There are, however, implicit references to such a right within a number of SADC policy documents, and three...

In Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6), also known as the ‘water goal’, one finds various (implicit) references to the internationally recognized human right to water. The aim of this paper is to further explore those linkages. More specifically, the main research question is the...

This Special Issue on Localising the Sustainable Human Right to Water begins with contributions focused on a global and more general perspective. These contributions provide a general introduction to the topic of the sustainable human right to water. It then shifts perspective to provide...

The 2003 WTO Fifth Ministerial Conference was one of the most important due to the various issues discussed that could likely influence various countries and their economic futures. Supposed to redress international trade imbalances, the event, however, ended dramatically failing to come to any...

How to bridge the gap between trade regimes and human rights regimes has long been hotly debated in the international law community. From the perspective of global governance for human rights, linking human rights obligations in FTAs, compared to “soft” human rights treaties, is believed to...

This article presents a series of reflections on the links between the economy and human rights in times of Covid-19. It argues that the economy and human rights are not incompatible and criticises “the economy first” approach that some governments are promoting, as it leads to the worst of...