At its 26th session, on 26 June 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 26/9 by which it decided “to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”
The Human Rights Council also decided that the first two sessions of the open-ended intergovernmental working group “shall be dedicated to conducting constructive deliberations on the content, scope, nature and form of the future international instrument.”
Following its first session, which was held from 6 to 10 July 2015, the open-ended intergovernmental working group presented its report to the Council at its thirty-first session (please see the report A/HRC/31/50).
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ORAL STATEMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS
Opening Statements
Oral Statements and Panel Presentations
General Documentation
List of Panellists « please click on the blue links to access further details about the panellists”
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Victoria Tauli Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples,
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Chip Pitts, Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, Stanford University
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Roberto Suarez, Deputy Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers
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Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
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Michael Congiu, Shareholder, Littler Mendelson PLC
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Hatem Kotrane, member of UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
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Bonita Meyersfeld, Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Associate Professor of law at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Isabel Ortiz, Director of the Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization
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Surya Deva, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong
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Kinda Mohamedieh, Associate Researcher, Trade for Development Programme, South Centre
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Marcos Orellana, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
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Richard Meeran, Partner, Leigh Day & Co.
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Tom Mackall, Group Vice President, Global Labor Relations, Sodex
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Karen Curtis, Chief, Freedom of Association Branch, International Labour Organization
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Sanya Reid Smith, Legal Advisor and senior researcher, Third World Network
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Carlos Lopez, Senior Legal Adviser, Business and Human Rights, International Commission of Jurists
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Carlos M. Correa, Special Advisor on Trade and Intellectual Property, South Centre (Short bio)
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Nabila Tbeur, Special Advisor to the President, Conseil National des Droits de l'Homme du Maroc (speaking on behalf of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Working Group on Business and Human Rights)
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Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham
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Stephanie Blankenburg, Head of Debt andDevelopment Finance Branch, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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Lene Wendland, Advisor on Business & Human Rights, OHCHR
List of Panellists
Programme of Work
Report on the first session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, with the mandate of elaborating an international legally binding instrument (A/HRC/31/50)
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