The United Nations and the binding treaty on transnational companies and human rights: an analysis from social movements
The adoption of Resolution 26/9 in 2014, by the Human Rights Council of United Nations, changes the trend developed until now in that body; It establishs the debate on the need for binding rules against the logic of voluntaries codes. This article reviews the evolution of control instruments over tr...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) |
| Repositorio: | Homa Publica (Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/30541 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMA/article/view/30541 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Tratado vinculante Direitos Humanos Empresas transnacionais Nações Unidas Binding Treaty Human Rights Transnational Corporation United Nations Derechos Humanos Empresas transnacionales Naciones Unidas |
| Sumario: | The adoption of Resolution 26/9 in 2014, by the Human Rights Council of United Nations, changes the trend developed until now in that body; It establishs the debate on the need for binding rules against the logic of voluntaries codes. This article reviews the evolution of control instruments over transnational corporations and human rights in United Nation, from the perspective of human rights organizations, social movements, critical sectors of academia and affected communities. In turn, it analyzes the current mandate, which opens a process to create a binding instrument, also from the approach of these same actors. One of the main evaluations is that Resolution 26/9 is an opportunity to establish measures to stop the impunity of large corporations and, based on this consideration, have made concrete proposals for the elaboration of the binding instrument. Other important aspects to be emphasized in the analysis of the current context are the barriers that can restrain the binding instrument given the asymmetry in power relations between transnational corporations and social majorities. Based on the evaluation of both issues, they consider it essential to accompany the UN process and to bring forward the proposals generated collectively in the construction of a right "from below" to guarantee the fulfillment of human rights against the impacts of the transnational companies. |
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