"Economic and Social Rights Advocacy Brief: The State Obligation to Respect, Protect and Fulfil Economic Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities"

...[This] edition of the ESRA brief...{focuses] on the state obligation to protect, respect and fulfil Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities. [It] makes a case for a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights as a mechanism to address corporate abuses of human rights...articulates why social safeguards matter for investment and infrastructure projects...and the application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to land acquisition.