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1 Nov 2013

Author:
ESCR-Net, Food First Information and Action Network, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), International Commission of Jurists

[PDF] Call for an international legally binding instrument on human rights, transnational corporations and other business enterprises

This joint statement…was drafted by participants in the first annual Peoples' Forum on Human Rights and Business…We welcome organizations to join as signatories…[We] call upon…States to elaborate an international treaty that…affirms the applicability of human rights obligations to…transnational corporations and other business enterprises;…requires States Parties to monitor and regulate the operations of business enterprises under their jurisdiction, including when acting outside their national territory…[and] provide for legal liability for business enterprises for acts or omissions that infringe human rights...

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