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Article

7 Jul 2015

Author:
Rebecca Bucherer, International Network of Human Rights (RIDH)

Working group on TNCs and other businesses finally adopts programme of work

After many hours of informal consultations among diplomatic missions, the intergovernmental working group...finally managed to agree on a programme of work. In order to disrupt the blockage, the Chairperson Ms Espinoza offered a new path, consisting in adding a first panel discussion on the Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as initially proposed by the European Union. The second motion set forth by the European Union, which aimed at broadening the range of applicability also to other businesses than just the ones mentioned in Resolution 26/9, was therewith put on hold...Once consensus was found...the floor was opened for the first panel...[T]he Chairperson decided to proceed with the second panel. Discussions covered possible scopes, sort of entities and human rights to be included, as well as the applicability and jurisdiction which should be taken into consideration in the adoption of a legally binding instrument...

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