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LIST OF READINGS

Business & human rights course SESSION 1: International commerce and human rights (25/4) Obligatory

Fred Pearce, The story of the blues: Tracking the journey of the £9 pair of jeans, The Independent, 28 February 2008 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-story-of-the-blues-tracking-the-journey-of-the-1639-pair-of-jeans-5325051.html

Stephanie Nolen, How rebels profit from blood and soil, Globe and Mail, October 29, 2008

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081024.wcongo1025/BNStory/International/home/?pageRequested=2

From conflict to co-operation, ECONOMIST, 6 Feb 2016 http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21690100-big-miners-have-better-record-their-critics-claim-it-up-governments-balance?frsc=dg%7Cc

John G. Ruggie, Making Globalization Work for all: Achieving the Sustainable

Development Goals Through Business Respect for Human Rights, November 2016 http://www.shiftproject.org/resources/viewpoints/globalization-sustainable-development-goals-business-respect-human-rights/

Karl P. Sauvant, The times they are a-changin’ -- again -- in the relationships between governments and multinational enterprises: From control, to liberalization to rebalancing, Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 69 May 21, 2012 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac%3A147140

European Commission, The top 10 myths about TTIP, 2015, http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/march/tradoc_153266.pdf

ILO, Social Dimensions of Free Trade Agreements, 2013

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---inst/documents/publication/wcms_228965.pdf

Only pp. 1-4 (Executive summary)

Recommended

James Kilner, Global clothing brands boycott Uzbek cotton, 18 Sep 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/uzbekistan/8771473/Global-clothing-brands-boycott-Uzbek-cotton.html

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Stephen Foley, GlaxoSmithKline pays $3bn for illegally marketing depression drug, 3 July 2012 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/glaxosmithkline-pays-3bn-for-illegally-marketing-depression-drug-7904555.html

Adri Nieuwhof, Security firm G4S provides services to Israeli prisons, police and army, 05/06/2012, http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/security-firm-g4s-provides-services-israeli-prisons-police-and-army

John Gapper, Perils of supermarket cost-cutting machines, Financial Times, February 13, 2013 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5a90079a-7533-11e2-b8ad-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30NjPjPuE

Charles Lane, The Sanders-Pope Francis ‘moral economy’ could hurt the income inequality fight, April 13, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-sanders-pope-francis-moral-economy-could-hurt-the-income-inequality-fight/2016/04/13/8007b80a-01ae-11e6-9203-7b8670959b88_story.html

IIED, Rethinking investment treaties to advance human rights, September 2016 http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17376IIED.pdf

Corporate Europe Observatory, Still not loving ISDS: 10 reasons to oppose investors’

super-rights in EU trade deals, 2014 http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2014/04/still-not-loving-isds-10-reasons-oppose-investors-super-rights-eu-trade

The trouble with China's 'One Belt One Road' strategy, 29.06.2015

https://chinadialogue.org.cn/article/show/single/en/8001-The-trouble-with-China-s-One-Belt-One-Road-strategy

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SESSION 2: International soft law instruments on corporate responsibilities (27/4)

Obligatory

Secretary-General Proposes Global Compact On Human Rights, Labour, Environment, Address To World Economic Forum In Davos, 1999 www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1999/19990201.sgsm6881.html

The 10 Principles of the UN Global Compact www.unglobalcompact.org

OECD, Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises, Adopted 21 June 1976, Revised 27 June 201, http://www.oecd.org/daf/inv/mne/48004323.pdf Only pp. 11-26 and pp 31-41

U.N. Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, Foley Hoag LLP, May 2011 http://www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie/foley-hoag-briefing-guiding-principles-may-2011.pdf

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, 2011 (A/HRC/17/31) www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie/ruggie-guiding-principles-21-mar-2011.pdf Only pp. 3-5

Business And Human Rights: Together At Last? A Conversation with John Ruggie, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Summer, 2011 http://fletcher.tufts.edu/~/media/Fletcher/Microsites/Fletcher%20Forum/PDFs/2011summer/Ruggie_FA.ashx

Videos

2014 Interview with Georg Kell (Global Compact) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QWLfjUnjeU 02:00 to 12:30

2015 Chair OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1UWOztE5c

full 5 min

2010 Joris Oldenziel on the OECD Guidelines for MNEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZVjY3p8FY

full 7 min

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2014 Does the World Need a Treaty on Business and Human Rights? Weighing the Pros and Cons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIq9dtbkXI Doug Cassel - min 03:00 – 12:00 (reviews briefly all main CSR instruments, chronologically. covers the Norms)

2009 John Ruggie explains his mandate and progress so far (UNGPs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th88pvZYa-4 0 – 5:00

2008 John Ruggie: Is Ethical Capitalism Possible? (UNGPs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP8WPfT1mdo 2 min (ethics v regulations)

2012 Launch of John Ruggie's "Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights" (UNGPs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UjdBGg0Fd0 12:30 – 20:00 (explaining framework, differently, rationalities) 38:20 - 45:00 (radical NGO critique, GPs and soft law)

2011 Richard Howitt MEP (EU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkc-srsbhI 02:00 - 14:00

Recommended

John H. Knox, ‘Horizontal Human Rights Law’, American Journal of International Law, January, 2008

Alvarez, Jose E., ‘Are Corporations "Subjects" of International Law?’, 9 Santa Clara J. Int'l L. 1 (2011)

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 58/129, ‘Towards global partnerships’ (2004) <www.un.org/esa/coordination/Alliance/documents/58-129-E.pdf>

European Commission, A renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility, 2011http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sustainable-business/files/csr/new-csr/act_en.pdf

Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights, Commission on Human Rights, Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, (2003) http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/commentary-Aug2003.html

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David Weissbrodt, Muria Kruger, ‘Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights’, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 97, No. 4. (Oct., 2003), pp. 901-922.

Miretski, Pini Pavel; Bachmann, Sascha-Dominik, ‘The UN Norms on the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights: A Requiem,’ 17 Deakin L. Rev. 5 (2012)

International Labour Organization, Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, Adopted by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office November 1977, Amended November 2017 http://www.ilo.org/empent/Publications/WCMS_094386/lang--en/index.htm

VIDEO: dialogue at UN Human Rights Council with UN Working Group on business & human rights, 2012, http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2012/06/clustered-id-on-corporations-and-foreign-debt-8th-meeting-20th-session.html

Only min. 06:00 – 18.00

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SESSION 3: Corporate responsibility to respect human rights (2/5) Obligatory

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, 2011 (A/HRC/17/31) www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie/ruggie-guiding-principles-21-mar-2011.pdf Only pp. 13-22 (Pillar 2 of the UNGPs)

OHCHR, The Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights – Interpretive Guide, 2012 http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/RtRInterpretativeGuide.pdf Only pp. 5-25 and 76-89

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UN Commission on Human Rights, Human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Human Rights Resolution 2005/69, http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/CHR/resolutions/E-CN_4-RES-2005-69.doc

Human Rights Council, Human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, A/HRC/17/L.17/Rev.1, 2011 http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G11/140/52/PDF/G1114052.pdf?OpenElement

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SESSION 4: Human Rights Due Diligence (4/5) Obligatory

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, 2011 (A/HRC/17/31) www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie/ruggie-guiding-principles-21-mar-2011.pdf Only pp. 15-20 (Principles 16-21 of the UNGPs)

OHCHR, The Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights, Interpretive Guide, 2012 http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/RtRInterpretativeGuide.pdf Only pp. 26-62 and 76-89

International Financial Corporation (IFC), Performance Standard 1 Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts, World Bank, 2012 http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/3be1a68049a78dc8b7e4f7a8c6a8312a/PS1_English_2012.pdf?MOD=AJPERES 11 pages

Human Rights Impact Assessments, Discussion Paper, https://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/reports-and-materials/Discussion-paper-human-rights-impact-assessments-Jul-2006.pdf

6 pages

Human Rights Compliance Assessment (DIHR) - DIHR Website – About HRCA https://hrca2.humanrightsbusiness.org/Page-

AboutTheHrca-1.aspx - Quick check (2006)

https://hrca2.humanrightsbusiness.org/docs/file/HRCA%20Quick%20Check_English.pdf Pick one right you’re interested in and read the 5-10 pages to grasp the format

of the tool (description + indicators) Recommended

Robert E. Moran, Ph.D., The Conga Mine, Peru: Comments on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Related Issues, paper prepared for the Environmental Defender Law Center, 2012 http://denjustpeace.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Peru-Conga-REM-Rept-English-March-84.pdf

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Only pp. 1-11 (executive summary)

SOMO, Conflict Due Diligence by European Companies, October 2013

Mark B Taylor, Luc Zandvliet and Mitra Forouhar, Due Diligence for Human Rights: A Risk-Based Approach, 2009 http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/CSRI/publications/workingpaper_53_taylor_etal.pdf

KUONI, Assessing Human Rights Impacts - Kenya Pilot Project Report, November 2012 http://www.kuoni.com/docs/assessing_human_rights_impacts_0.pdf

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SESSION 5 - Guest speaker (7/5)

Readings to be announced later

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SESSION 6: Transparency regulations and corporate accountability (9/5) Obligatory

Pillar 1 in GPs

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, 2011 (A/HRC/17/31) www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie/ruggie-guiding-principles-21-mar-2011.pdf Only pp. 6-13 (pillar 1 of the UNGPs)

UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, 2015, http://www.ungpreporting.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/UNGPReportingFramework_Feb2015.pdf

Transparency laws

Richard Howitt, The EU law on non-financial reporting - how we got there, Guardian, 16 April 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/eu-non-financial-reporting-how-richard-howitt?CMP=twt_gu

Assessment of the EU Directive on the disclosure of non-financial information by certain large companies, ECCJ Brief (2014) https://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/eccj-assessment-eu-non-financial-reporting-may-2104.pdf

DIRECTIVE 2014/95/EU as regards disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups, 2014, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32014L0095&from=EN

Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, 2013 https://www.globalreporting.org/resourcelibrary/GRIG4-Part1-Reporting-Principles-and-Standard-Disclosures.pdf Only pp. 3, 9, 16-18, pp 70-79 (have a quick look to get an impression of what

reporting on HR means)

ECCJ, France adopts corporate duty of vigilance law: a first historic step towards better human rights and environmental protection, 2017 http://corporatejustice.org/news/393-france-adopts-corporate-duty-of-vigilance-law-a-first-historic-step-towards-better-human-rights-and-environmental-protection

(France) Trade and Industry Code (2017) https://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/Texte%20PPL_EN-US.docx

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Recommended

Amnesty International, Global Witness, Digging for Transparency: How U.S. companies are only scratching the surface of conflict minerals reporting, 2015 https://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/democratic-republic-congo/digging-transparency/

Bennett Freeman, Investors urge court to uphold SEC conflict-minerals rule, March

03, 2014 http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/199734-investors-urge-court-to-uphold-sec-conflict-minerals-rule

ECCJ, Human Right Due Diligence - The Role of States, 2012

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SESSION 7: Company law and managerial accountability (14/5) Obligatory

Human rights and corporate law: trends and observations from a crossnational study conducted by the Special Representative, Addendum 2 to the Report, A/HRC/17/31/Add.2, 2011.

Only pp 14-28

R. Mares, The dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibilities (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008), Chapter 2 (PDF uploaded on website)

Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970, www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-resp-business.html

Recommended

M. C. Jensen, ‘Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function’, 14:3 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (2001) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=220671

Jean-Philippe Robé, The Legal Structure of the Firm, 2011 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227377703_The_Legal_Structure_of_the_Firm

R. Mares, The dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibilities (Martinus Nijhoff

Publishers, 2008), Chapter 3 (PDF uploaded on website)

C. Wicks, ‘Overcoming the Separation Thesis: The Need for Reconsideration of Business and Society Research’, 35:1 Business & Society (1996),

B. Caroll, ‘The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders’, 34:4 Business Horizons (1991)

Friedman, M., Mackey, J., and Rodgers, T. J.. Rethinking the social responsibility of business: A reason debate featuring Milton Friedman, 2005, http://reason.com/archives/2005/10/01/rethinking-the-social-responsi

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SESSION 8: Transnational litigation and access to remedies ((16/5) Obligatory

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, 2011 (A/HRC/17/31) www.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie/ruggie-guiding-principles-21-mar-2011.pdf Only pp. 13-22 (pillar 3 of the UNGPs)

OHCHR, The Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights – Interpretive Guide, 2012 http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/RtRInterpretativeGuide.pdf Only pp. 63- 76

OECD Watch, Calling for Corporate Accountability: A guide to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, 2013 http://oecdwatch.org/publications-en/Publication_3962

Only pp 32-37 on the NCPs

Jernej Letnar, Global Witness V. Afrimex LTD.: Decision Applying OECD Guidelines on Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights, 2009, http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/13/issue/1/global-witness-v-afrimex-ltd-decision-applying-oecd-guidelines-corporate

EartRights International, The U.S. Foreign Legal Assistance (FLA) statute, 2016, https://www.earthrights.org/legal/foreign-legal-assistance

Recommended

Jock McCulloch, ‘Beating the odds: The quest for justice by South African asbestos mining communities’, Review of African Political Economy, 2005 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4006910

STATEMENT OF THE PLAINTIFFS IN WIWA V. ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL, WIWA V. ANDERSON, AND WIWA V. SPDC, June 8, 2009 http://wiwavshell.org/documents/Wiwa_v_Shell_Statement_of_Plaintiffs.pdf

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STATEMENT OF SHELL, Shell settles Wiwa case with humanitarian gesture, 08/06/2009, http://www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/media/news-and-media-releases/2009/shell-settlement-wiwa-case-08062009.html

D.Taylor, ‘BP oil spill: Colombian farmers sue for negligence, The Guardian, 11 January 2011, www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/11/bp-oil-spill-colombian-farmers

Nora Götzmann and Claire Methven O´Brien, Business And Human Rights - A Guidebook For National Human Rights Institutions, International Coordinating Committee, 2013 http://www.humanrightsbusiness.org/files/ICC%20working%20group/BHR%20Guidebook%20for%20NHRIs_2013_ENG.pdf

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SESSION 9: Seminar: Case Study: Nike and Labour Standards in supply chains (18/5)

See seminar instructions (will be distributed in advance of the seminar)

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SESSION 10: Guest speaker (21/5)

Readings to be announced later

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SESSION 11: Seminar: Case Study: Goldcorp (Guatemala) and extractive industries impacts (23/5) See seminar instructions (will be distributed in advance of the seminar)

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SESSION 12: Corporate voluntarism: incentives and best business practices (25/5) Note: There are numerous CSR initiatives. Always start with the ‘frequently asked questions’ (FAQs) section. Proceed then to read the founding document: Code, Principles, or whatever name is given to the core document. Obligatory

Fair Labor Association www.fairlabor.org

Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) http://www.bsci-intl.org/ BSCI Code of Conduct http://www.bsci-intl.org/content/bsci-code-conduct Implementation System: BSCI 2.0 http://www.bsci-intl.org/content/one-

implementation-system-bsci-20

Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), http://eiti.org/

Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights http://www.voluntaryprinciples.org/what-are-the-voluntary-principles/

Equator Principles http://www.equator-

principles.com/resources/equator_principles_III.pdf Only pp. 5-10

G. Kell, ‘The Global Compact Selected Experiences and Reflections’, Journal of Business Ethics 59:1 (2005), pp. 69-79 http://www.springerlink.com/content/r42862x07j241761/

UN Global Compact, Global Compact Governance: Why Context Matters, 2011 http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/9.1_news_archives/2011_04_04/UNGC_Governance_Note_Apr11.pdf

Airbnb’s Work to Fight Discrimination and Build Inclusion, 2016 http://blog.airbnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/REPORT_Airbnbs-Work-to-Fight-Discrimination-and-Build-Inclusion.pdf

How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More, NYT, 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/upshot/how-did-walmart-get-cleaner-stores-and-higher-sales-it-paid-its-people-more.html?_r=0

Recommended

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Shift, Implications of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for the Fair Labor Association, 2012 http://shiftproject.org/sites/default/files/Implications%20of%20the%20UN%20Guiding%20Principles%20on%20Business%20and%20Human%20Rights%20for%20the%20Fair%20Labor%20Association_4.pdf

Dibya Sarkar, Yahoo Asks US Gov't to Help Dissidents, Feb 21, 2008 www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-02-21-2731094939_x.htm

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SESSION 13: The emerging CSR regime (29/5)

Obligatory The treaty debate between Ruggie and critics

Report on the first session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, with the mandate of elaborating an international legally binding instrument, 5 February 2016, http://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/A.HRC_.31.50_E.pdf

SRSG, Recommendations on Follow-Up to the Mandate, 11 February 2011 http://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/ruggie/ruggie-special-mandate-follow-up-11-feb-2011.pdf

John Ruggie, A UN Business and Human Rights Treaty? , 28 January 2014 http://business-humanrights.org/media/documents/ruggie-on-un-business-human-rights-treaty-jan-2014.pdf

John Ruggie, Business and human rights – Treaty road not travelled, EC Newsdesk, 6 May 2008 www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/225-general/32270-business-and-human-rights-treaty-road-not-travelled.html

Christopher Albin-Lackey, Without Rules - A Failed Approach to Corporate Accountability, Human Rights Watch, 2013 http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/essays/112459

Stakeholders’ view on the UNGPs

International Trade Union Confederation, The United Nations “Protect, Respect, Remedy” Framework for Business and Human Rights and the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights – A Guide for Trade Unionists, 2012 http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/12-04-23_ruggie_background_fd.pdf

SOMO, How to use the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in company research and advocacy - A guide for civil society organisations, 2012, http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_3899/

International Organization of Employers, Guiding Principles On Business And Human Rights – An IOE Employers’ Guide, 2012 http://lempnet.itcilo.org/en/hidden-folder/ioe-guide-on-un-guiding-principles-human-rights

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Recommended

R. Mares, ‘Business and Human Rights After Ruggie: Foundations, the Art of Simplification and the Imperative of Cumulative Progress’, in R. Mares (ed.), The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – Foundations and Implementation, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Leiden, Boston 2012) http://rwi.lu.se/app/uploads/2012/06/Business-and-Human-Rights-After-Ruggie.pdf

Burkard Eberlein et al., ‘Transnational business governance interactions: Conceptualization and framework for analysis’, Regulation & Governance (2013)

BOOK: John Gerard Ruggie, Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights, 2013 (220 pages)

VIDEO: A conversation with John Ruggie, Annual Conference of International Bar Association, 2013 http://www.ibanet.org/Conferences/JohnRuggie2013.aspx 1 hour long

VIDEO: Interview with Ecuadorian UN representative, www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOaRtlGsNpM

22 min