"Aportes magazine - Business and Human Rights", Nov 2015

This edition of Aportes DPLF addresses the most recent international legal developments on business and human rights, as well as specific cases and proposals for studying the issue in the future...The first section examines the evolution of the issue in international human rights bodies. Carlos López discusses the latest UN initiatives and makes recommendations for the content of a future international treaty on business and human rights. For his part, Amol Mehra analyzes the benefits of adopting National Action Plans that implement the Guiding Principles...Based on two frameworks— the United Nations and the Inter-American System—the second section considers extraterritorial human rights obligations...Foreign investment and its impact on Latin America are addressed in three articles...In the fourth section, we present four cases in which corporations have directly or indirectly, with or without the support of the State, violated the rights of the affected communities...The edition concludes with an article by Eduardo García, who, from a private sector perspective, provides an account of the initiatives taken by the Repsol Company in Latin America and the challenges it foresees with respect to new international standards for business and human rights...[Also refers to Blackfire Exploration, Doe Run (part of Renco), Pacific Rim Mining, Vale] Disponible en español