March 2013
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Guardian Sustainable Business Quarterly Event
Last night I had the pleasure to participate to one of the Guardian Sustainable Business Quarterly events on “Business & human rights – Implementing principles and solving dilemmas”. The event started with a panel discussion between Hans Daems (Head of public affairs at Hitachi), Faris Natour (Human rights director at BSR), Susanne Stormer (Vice President… Continue reading
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General Comment of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on State Obligations regarding the Impact of the Business Sector on Children’s Rights
A special thank you to Dr. Olga Martin-Ortega for the info about the adoption of the General Comment. On 15 March 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted General Comment No 16 on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights. The comment has emerged from the… Continue reading
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John Ruggie’s Book Launch in London
Last night John Ruggie, former UN Secretary-General Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, was in London to launch his new book, Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights. Professor Ruggie, from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, was the driving force behind the ‘Protect, Respect, Remedy’ Framework and subsequent Guiding Principles on… Continue reading
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Business and Human rights in Ireland
I would like to welcome the new blog of my colleague Dr Shane Darcy from the Irish Centre of Human Rights called Business and Human Rights in Ireland. In his own words, “the blog is dedicated to tracking and analysing developments relating to business and human rights in Ireland. It aims to address legal and… Continue reading
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Austerity and Human Rights: a Middlesex Debate with the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Yesterday the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Dr Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, spoke at Middlesex University’s debate on “Does Austerity Harm our Human Rights?”. She was joined on the panel by Professor Joshua Castellino, Dean of the School of Law and member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Dr Elvira… Continue reading
About Me
My name is Nadia Bernaz and I am Associate Professor of Law at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. My area of research is business and human rights. I look at how corporations and businesspeople are held accountable for their human rights impact through international, domestic and transnational processes.
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- Donations and Democracy – website launch
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- International Cooperation and Solidarity: The Missing 4th Pillar of the UNGPs
- Call for Book Proposals on Business, Human Rights and the Environment
- Corporate (Un)Accountability in the Colonial Era: The Case of the East India Company
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