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24 Nov 2015

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The Center for Human Rights and Environment; Published, 20 August 2015

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The Center for Human Rights and Environment (CHRE) publishes today an interpretive guideline to understand Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) from a human rights perspective, focusing specifically on the application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to hydraulic fracturing. The CHRE publication reviews the various stages of hydraulic fracturing...identifying key human rights risks and impacts caused by each stage and dimension of the activity, and explores State and corporate due diligence to ensure that human rights are not violated...The guidelines also provide a due diligence reference table that includes a checklist for potential users of the guidelines...