Posts Tagged ‘Empresas y derechos humanos’
Business, human rights and a Latin American agenda for regulation
The impacts of some companies on social rights, the lack of regulation in this field, and Dejusticia’s efforts to build a Latin American agenda to promote common standards of responsibility.
Read MoreEngaging with Big Business: Seeking Accountability for the Human Rights Impacts of Corporate Activities
A course on Business and Human Rights organized by Dejusticia
Read MoreEntre coacción y colaboración: Verdad judicial, actores económicos y conflicto armado en Colombia
While it is clear that many of the economic actors lack responsibility in the conflict and others have been victims of it, some research has shown that some did have a decisive role in the origin, development and perpetuation of the cycles of armed conflict in the country.
Read MoreInvima Suspends Hit Commercial and Ad: Juices do not have as much fruit as they make you believe
The authorities found that the slogan “It’s natural that you like Hit” and other messages from Postobón contained misleading claims about the fruit content in these drinks. The measure was made after Dejusticia and Red Papaz denounced the case.
Read MorePreventing Corporate Intimidation of Rightsholders
Unfavorable news, a negative opinion of an opinion leader, or even an unfounded rumor can affect companies whose value depends to a large extent on the confidence of their shareholders and the public in their good behavior and the possibilities of obtaining profits by investing in them.
Read MoreIncreasing Accountability
All Colombian society, especially economic actors who had no connection to the conflict, in an effort to go beyond political differences and as a gesture of solidarity towards the victims, should commit themselves to claim and promote victims’ rights without restrictions.
Read MoreTruth Commission and economic actors
In recent days, Juan Manuel Charry published a column in Semana.com accusing Dejusticia of being a biased organization. Here is our answer.
Read MoreBusinesses, democracy, and human rights
In Colombia, two strident sides tend to predominate: the private sector actors who refuse to talk about the issue and the critics who are suspicious of any business activity.
Read MoreIncreasing accountability
Some economic leaders and columnists have criticized our Increasing Accountability report. Beyond the conclusions that other readers may reach, I believe that a profound and dispassionate reading of the book shows that these criticisms do not have any basis.
Read MoreWatching the small print in business and human rights
Imagine an innovative Alternative Dispute Resolution proposal for international individual claims, offered as a solution, in the context of Business and Human Rights, to the lack of access to forums of the home country of a Corporation.
Read MoreEntrenching the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Can the Inter-American System Help?
In the Case of the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples v. Suriname, decided in November, 2015, the Inter-American Court relied on the GPs and other international instruments in order to determine whether Suriname had violated its obligations under the American Convention. This event, while seemingly small, increases the legitimacy of the GPs as international norms.
Read MoreDejusticia intervenes at UN on transnational corporations and human rights
This week (October 24-28), the 2nd Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights is meeting and discussing a binding legal instrument.
Read MoreThe Olympics or the inability to protect rights
While traveling to Brazil, I felt why the Olympics are splendid. However, I confirmed how humanity has not been able to generate any advances in the protection of human rights during the construction of this mega-events.
Read MoreMeasuring What Matters: a Key Challenge in Human Rights and Business
Five years in, we still lack data and methods to measure how and whether States’ and business commitments to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are actually improving conditions on the ground. It is time to focus on measuring what matters, and zeroing in on how affected communities have experienced the GPs.
Black Communities in the Islands of Rosario: Between Tourism Development and Environmental Regulation
The government could formulate a policy that reconciles the rights of the community, the protection of the environment, and the development of tuorism to resolve these tensions.
Read MoreThe United Nations Debates Business and Human Rights
A gathering organized by the UN Working Group may promote international regulation of business and human rights.
Read MoreIntervention in the request for annulment of decision T-769/09
projects (Mandé Norte) in indigenous and Afro-Colombian collective territories until affected communities were consulted.
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