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Key legal obstacles around jurisdiction for victims seeking justice remain in the Revised Draft treaty
“...the Revised Draft still fails to clearly remove key legal obstacles faced by victims of corporate abuses..."
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The Revised Draft: Access to judicial remedy for victims of multinationals' abuse
“the legal and factual complexity... of these cases, and the might of the opposition, mean that victims require specialist legal representation and technical experts to pursue such cases”
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A Progressing Approach on Conflict-Affected Settings and Situations of Occupation
“[A legally binding instrument] should…be developed further…to counter corporate abuses and complicity in grave breaches and international crimes…”
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Legal liability for business human rights abuses under the revised draft of a treaty on business and human rights
“…the value of this article (Article 6.7 of the Revised Draft) is that it operates as an extension of the application to business corporations (legal entities) of a series of crimes under international law.”
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A new draft Business and Human Rights treaty and a promising direction of travel
“…it is not clear whether a parent company would be liable for the human rights harms caused or contributed to by a subsidiary.”
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Five ways the new draft treaty on business and human rights can be strengthened
"Substantively and diplomatically, the new draft is an enormous improvement over the “zero draft” released a year earlier"
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Ecuador’s Revised Draft Treaty: Getting Down to Business
"Substantively and diplomatically, the new draft is an enormous improvement over the “zero draft” released a year earlier"
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What the draft treaty's definition of 'victim' means for access to remedy
“The new draft contains enough improvements to justify hope for a fruitful fifth round of negotiations this Autumn”.
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