On 1 March, federal ministers Annalena Baerbock and Svenja Schulze jointly presented the Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) of the Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Strategy for a Feminist Development Policy (FDP) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...

It has long been recognized that patent rights are in tension with human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Right posits that scientific creators are entitled to the protection of the interests resulting from their scientific production. At the same time, it recognizes the right of...

The aim of this article is to explain the state of human rights of tea plantation workers as often been described as pathetic, but no concerted effort have yet been undertaken to promote the human right condition as a whole in the tea plantation areas of Sylhet. The first tea garden was...

Human right is the natural right of every human being. Human rights and economic development should move together, but unfortunately many times human rights of working and suffering class are violated to earn more income and thereby economic growth. Even in communist China the human rights are...

The article reviews trends in international non-binding standards:1) the equalisation of indigenous peoples and local communities as rights-holders;2) the strength and weakness of the safeguards approach in the context of redd+;3) the wide definition of who constitutes stakeholders; and 4) the...

Norway’s policies regarding Sámi and most national minorities in an historic perspective can be characterized as forced assimilation; except for Jews and Roma, where the historic policy can be termed exclusion. The Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is intended to be a...

In Nigeria, many of its citizens are quite vulnerable to the vagaries or negative impacts of climate change. This has been exacerbated by a plethora of factors not limited to poverty, the activities of multinational companies (MNCs) and endemic environmental injustice issues in many parts of the...

Human rights are inextricable from the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the UN Office of the High Commission states, “Human rights are essential to achieving sustainable development that leaves no one behind and are central to all its three dimensions – social,...

On February 14, 2023, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the criminal conviction of Raphaël Halet, one of the LuxLeaks whistleblowers, violated the European Convention of Human Rights. In its decision, the Court reaffirmed that whistleblowing is an exercise of...

The New Deal programs of the 1930s, at a time of rapid industrialization, widening economic inequality, gender and racial exclusionary policies are not the ideal reference point for present day solutions to labor and environment justice. This article argues that the Green New Deal (GND) must...

Considering a wide variety of international instruments and literature, this article will attempt to provide a comprehensive and consistent definition of the human right to development and its relationship to the human right to health and intellectual property. This article will also provide an...

Corporate human rights due diligence is now a social fact; it is no longer merely an idea or aspiration. This paper uses economist Frank H. Knight’s famous, albeit controversial, distinction between risk and uncertainty to help elucidate foundational concepts and challenges for the theory,...

There is increasingly an imperative for investors to incorporate human rights due diligence into their investment decision-making processes, driven both by regulatory and voluntary initiatives. However, tools for investors to assess the human rights practices of their investment universe or...

While the GDPR and other EU laws seek to mitigate a range of potential harms associated with smart cities, the compliance with and enforceability of these regulations remain an issue. In addition, these proposed regulations do not sufficiently address the collective harms associated with the...

Smart city technologies can have detrimental effects on human rights, making it crucial to mitigate them in the R&D phase. This qualitative socio-legal study of the Helsinki metropolitan area (HMA) explores how public funding for smart city research and development (R&D), and the data protection...

Smart cities are rarely built smart from scratch. For most cities, “smart city” signifies the presence of several smart city projects that emerge over time from various actors. These projects rely on extensive data and algorithms whose use in urban spaces and/or decision-making processes can...

Privately developed artificial intelligence (AI) systems are frequently used in smart city technologies. The negative effects of such systems on individuals’ human rights are increasingly clear, but we still only have a snapshot of their long-term risks to human rights. The central role of AI...

Am 1. März stellten die Bundesministerinnen Annalena Baerbock und Svenja Schulze bei einem gemeinsamen Auftritt die Leitlinien des Auswärtigen Amtes (AA) für eine feministische Außenpolitik (FAP) und die Strategie des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...

On 1 March, federal ministers Annalena Baerbock and Svenja Schulze jointly presented the Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) of the Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Strategy for a Feminist Development Policy (FDP) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...

Am 1. März stellten die Bundesministerinnen Annalena Baerbock und Svenja Schulze bei einem gemeinsamen Auftritt die Leitlinien des Auswärtigen Amtes (AA) für eine feministische Außenpolitik (FAP) und die Strategie des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...

The European Union (EU) is seeking out new partnerships and to strengthen existing ones, particularly with Global South states, to enhance its open strategic autonomy. This includes a resilient supply of raw materials for its twin transition to a digital and green economy. Hosting many...

In this working paper, we interrogate the ways anti-gender, or "pro-family", actors and organizations are using the frameworks and language of "development" to advance arguments and policies that restrict the rights of LGBTIQ+ people and seek to limit how we understand sexual and reproductive...

Die Länder der Welt bedürfen der Kooperation, um globale Probleme zu lösen. Zudem hatDeutschland als stark außenwirtschaftlich orientiertes Land ein besonderes Interesse an weltweiterZusammenarbeit. Die weltweit akzeptierten Menschenrechte scheinen dafür eine gute Grundlagezu sein, doch bei...

Human rights are the rights relating to life, freedom, equality, and dignity of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution or embodied in international treaties and enforceable by all national superior courts. The UN Human Rights Council is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote...

Over the last decade, significant legal developments seeking to implement the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) have taken place at the domestic, regional, and international level. In particular, various types of laws have been developed in that respect. Some...

AbstractThis study examines the impacts of human rights and resource use on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, capital market value, and financial performance of firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange from 2002 to 2021. The data collected from Refinitiv Eikon was...

While the issue of corporate responsibility in global value chains for environmental harm or human rights abuses has been at the centre of discussions, the responsibility of financial institutions in the global value chain of money appears to be one of the new frontiers – and is probably one...

This paper explores the relevance of existing international legal standards on children's human rights to a healthy ocean. In particular, we reflect on the still underestimated importance of a healthy ocean for children's human right to development and cultural rights. Focusing on environmental...

This essay examined some issues under international economic law from a human rights perspective. It appraised emerging issues in International Economic Law and discussed the nexus between international investment, state-investor agreement and human rights law. It conceptually clarified the...

Democracy is based on respect for human rights. It is the duty of the State to uphold and advance human rights in a democratic society. All State institutions, including the police department, RAB, the army, the court, and the civil administration, have a responsibility to respect human rights,...

This paper critically assess the impact of EU legislation that makes sustainability efforts for companies mandatory on the efforts under EU competition law to support the EU Green Deal Agenda. It can be considered as a starting point in trying to reconcile two trends: the sustainability turn in...

This is the tenth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates multiple provisions of international human rights instruments that have been signed, or signed and ratified, by the United States. The rights in question...

The article explores the utility of corporate social responsibility (CSR) clauses in international investment agreements to achieve responsible investor conduct on human rights and environmental protection. It provides an empirical overview of the content of such CSR clauses and offers a...

Are environmental human rights any match for the Anthropocene? With no time to waste, this trim compilation (221 pages) provides fresh critical analyses of the complexities of converging human rights and environmental protection. Based on expert analysis from the global South and North and...

The last few decades have witnessed increasing communion between the fields of environmental law and human rights. Traditionally, the field of environmental law serves to achieve desired ecological conditions, such as clean air, water and land and is captured by more than 500 international...

The world, Kenya notwithstanding, is increasingly becoming digitized. Estimates point out that Kenya had above 17 million internet users and more than 10 million social media users as of January 2023. On top of the government’s agenda is digitization which includes establishing a digital...