Thursday, December 28, 2023

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 8, no. 3, October 2023) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Aysel Küçüksu & Güneş Ünüvar, Vulnerability Theory as a Paradigm Shift in International Investment Law: Reimagining the Role of the State
    • Stephanie Triefus, The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?
    • Joel Slawotsky, Leveraging Human Rights Due Diligence in Corporate-State Procurement: The Exemplar of the Pfizer-Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Program
    • Aleydis Nissen, Gender-Transformative Remedies for Women Human Rights Defenders
    • Karin Buhmann, Confronting Challenges to Substantive Remedy for Victims: Opportunities for OECD National Contact Points under a Due Diligence Regime Involving Civil Liability
  • Developments in the Field
    • Marian G. Ingrams, The 2023 Update of the OECD Guidelines sets Stronger Standards for Companies but Weak Expectations for Governments – High and Lowlights from the New Text
    • Benn F. Hogan & Joanna Reyes, Downstream Human Rights Due Diligence: Informing Debate Through Insights from Business Practice
    • Claire Rankin, Defending the Rights of Local Communities against Box-Ticking Exercises: An Analysis of Sustaining the Wild Coast NPC v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy
    • Natalie Bugalski & David Pred, Lessons from the ANZ-Phnom Penh Sugar Case for the OECD National Contact Point System of Corporate Accountability
    • Daniel Kinderman, Klaus Stieglitz, & Laure Almairac, Corporate Social Irresponsibility, an Elastic Wall, and a Fragile State: Sign of Hope’s Unfinished Quest to Mitigate Human Rights Violations in South Sudan
    • Patricia Wiater, Chaos in the Sporting World over Russia’s War of Aggression: Political Neutrality in Light of Human Rights Protection