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18 Sep 2017

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UN Working Group on business & human rights

2017 UN Forum on business & human rights launches blog series re realizing access to effective remedy

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The annual Forum on Business and Human Rights is the UN’s platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue to assess the progress made by states and business enterprises in moving the three pillars of “Protect, Respect and Remedy” of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights from paper to practice. The 2017 edition of the Forum (27-29 November, 2017, Geneva, Switzerland) will focus on Pillar III of the Guiding Principles: the need to ensure access to effective remedies for victims of business-related human rights abuse... To build common understanding of gaps and challenges as well as solutions around access to effective remedies, we aim to facilitate a dialogue that extends beyond the three days of the Forum. Creating space for constructive engagement between all stakeholders (states, business, civil society, human rights defenders, trade unions, etc.) is a key objective of the Forum. The present Forum blog series is meant to be an online platform for pre-Forum dialogue around the themes and topics of the 2017 Forum to share information about ongoing work in an accessible way... All stakeholders and interested parties are encouraged to contribute. 

For expressions of interest in contributing, please write to: David Birchall (BHRJ fellow), [email protected] and cc: the UN Forum Secretariat, [email protected], indicating “Forum Blog” in the subject line... The blog will be hosted on the website of the Business and Human Rights Journal and... cross-posted at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.

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