UN OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [to 20 June 2015]
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Council opens annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women, discusses domestic violence against women and girls
Human Rights Council
6/19/2015

Natural resources sector: UN expert calls for binding human rights treaty for corporations
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
6/18/2015
GENEVA (18 June 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, called for a new treaty binding businesses to respect fundamental human rights, and for States and corporations to fully engage with civil society organizations in the context of natural resource exploitation.
“Corporations play an outsized role in the decision-making processes about exploitation of natural resources. But they are not subject to legally binding human rights obligations,” Mr. Kiai told the UN Human Rights Council during the presentation of his latest report*. “It is time to address this issue more robustly; corporations must not escape responsibility to safeguard human rights.”
In response to these concerns, the Special Rapporteur called upon States to enact a legally binding human rights instrument that applies to all corporations, regardless of their size or geographical scope…

Sustainable development: UN expert group calls for accountability of public and private sectors
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
6/16/2015