Business and Human Rights Journal

2016 - 2025

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Volume 8, issue 3, 2023

Vulnerability Theory as a Paradigm Shift in International Investment Law: Reimagining the Role of the State pp. 309-328

Aysel Küçüksu and Güneş Ünüvar

The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration? pp. 329-351

Stephanie Triefus

Leveraging Human Rights Due Diligence in Corporate-State Procurement: The Exemplar of the Pfizer-Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Program pp. 352-368

Joel Slawotsky

Gender-Transformative Remedies for Women Human Rights Defenders pp. 369-402

Aleydis Nissen

Confronting Challenges to Substantive Remedy for Victims: Opportunities for OECD National Contact Points under a Due Diligence Regime Involving Civil Liability pp. 403-426

Karin Buhmann

The 2023 Update of the OECD Guidelines sets Stronger Standards for Companies but Weak Expectations for Governments – High and Lowlights from the New Text pp. 427-433

Marian G. Ingrams

Downstream Human Rights Due Diligence: Informing Debate Through Insights from Business Practice pp. 434-440

Benn F. Hogan and Joanna Reyes

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 pp. 441-447

Claire Rankin

Lessons from the ANZ-Phnom Penh Sugar Case for the OECD National Contact Point System of Corporate Accountability pp. 448-453

Natalie Bugalski and David Pred

Corporate Social Irresponsibility, an Elastic Wall, and a Fragile State: Sign of Hope’s Unfinished Quest to Mitigate Human Rights Violations in South Sudan pp. 454-460

Daniel Kinderman, Klaus Stieglitz and Laure Almairac

Chaos in the Sporting World over Russia’s War of Aggression: Political Neutrality in Light of Human Rights Protection pp. 461-467

Patricia Wiater

Kinnari I. Bhatt, Concessionaries, Financiers and Communities. Implementing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020) pp. 468-470

Judith Schönsteiner

Gabriel Webber Ziero, Business, Compliance and Human Rights Law. The Effectiveness of Transnational Private Regulations for Vulnerable Stakeholders (New York: Routledge, 2022), 248 pp. ISBN: 9781032026633 pp. 471-473

David Monciardini

Miriam Saage-Maaß, Peer Zumbansen, Michael Bader and Palvasha Shahab (editors), Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains: Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice (Springer, 2021), 333 pp pp. 474-476

Muhammad Asif Khan

Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility by Peter Lund-Thomsen (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022). ISBN 978 1 83910 208 0 pp. 477-479

Lara Bianchi

Human Rights: A Key Idea for Business and Society by Karin Buhmann (Routledge, London, 2021). ISBN 9780367520540 pp. 480-482

Frank de Bakker

Volume 8, issue 2, 2023

Business and Human Rights in a Changing World Order: Beyond the Ethics of Disembedded Liberalism pp. 135-150

David Jason Karp

Beyond Climate Due Diligence: Fossil Fuels, ‘Red Lines’ and Reparations pp. 151-179

Julia Dehm

Corporate Law’s Threat to Human Rights: Why Human Rights Due Diligence Might Not Be Enough pp. 180-196

Barnali Choudhury

Beyond Buzzwords: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence and a Rights-Based Approach to Business Models pp. 197-212

Marianna Leite

Human Rights Due Diligence by Corporate Creditors in Sovereign Debt Restructurings – A Great Missing Link pp. 213-236

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Francisco Cantamutto and Lucas Castiglioni

Access to Remedies and Reparations: From Brazilian Practice to International Binding Standards pp. 237-243

Thales Cavalcanti Coelho

Emerging Regulations on Content Moderation and Misinformation Policies of Online Media Platforms: Accommodating the Duty of Care into Intermediary Liability Models pp. 244-251

Caio C. V. Machado and Thaís Helena Aguiar

A Fast and Fair Energy Transition: How Community Legal Action and New Legislation are Shaping the Global Shift to Renewable Energy pp. 252-258

Elodie Aba

Protecting Reproductive Rights Post-Roe: Can Companies Keep Your Data Safe? pp. 259-264

Meagan Barrera and Danny Rayman Labrin

Automotive Supply Chain Links to the Uyghur Genocide: Reversing a Growing Crisis pp. 265-270

Kendyl Salcito

In the Wake of Bonsucro: Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Third-Party Certifiers at the Test Bench of OECD National Contact Points pp. 271-276

Elena Corcione

The Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights: Addressing Extraterritorial Corporate Human Rights Abuses at the Subnational Level pp. 277-283

Daniel Iglesias Márquez

Mind the Governance Gaps: Harmful Corporate Strategies Leading to Avoidance of Responsibility and Civil Society Counter-Strategies pp. 284-291

Katharine Booth

‘From Nuremberg to Kabuga’ - Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law: Industry and Atrocity, Joanna Kyriakakis (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) pp. 292-294

Jonathan Kolieb

Power, Participation, and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights Under Supply Chain Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) Edited by Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle and Kate Taylor pp. 295-297

Chris Okafor and David Birchall

Anna Aseeva, From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Liability: A Socio‑Legal Study of Corporate Liability in Global Value Chains (Oxford: Hart, 2021), 244 pp pp. 298-300

Marisa McVey

Mihaela Maria Barnes, State-Owned Entities and Human Rights. The Role of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) pp. 301-303

Olena Uvarova

Chiara Macchi, Business, Human Rights and the Environment: The Evolving Agenda (The Netherlands: TMC Asser Press, 2022), 201 pp pp. 304-307

Liliana Lizarazo-Rodríguez

Volume 8, issue 1, 2023

Muddying the Waters: The Concept of a ‘Safe Harbour’ in Understanding Human Rights Due Diligence pp. 1-17

Lise Smit, Claire Bright and Stuart Neely

Decentring Narratives around Business and Human Rights Instruments: An Example of the French Devoir de Vigilance Law pp. 18-42

Debadatta Bose

Grievance Mechanisms in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: Providing Effective Remedy for Human Rights Violations? pp. 43-65

James Harrison and Mark Wielga

Localizing the UNGPs – An Afrocentric Approach to Interpreting Pillar II pp. 66-84

Akinwumi Ogunranti

Awareness, Analysis and Action: A Rights Holder Perspective on Building the Fair Food Movement and the Way Forward for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility pp. 85-89

Gerardo Reyes Chavez

Business Impacts on Economic Inequality: An Agenda for Defining Related Human Rights Impacts and Economic Inequality Due Diligence pp. 90-96

Daniel Litwin

The Modernization of the Energy Charter Treaty: Fulfilled or Broken Promises? pp. 97-102

Bart-Jaap Verbeek

Whistleblowers as Defenders of Human Rights: The Whistleblower Protection Act in Japan pp. 103-109

Masaki Iwasaki

Human Rights Violations Connected with Deforestation – Emerging and Diverging Approaches to Human Rights Due Diligence pp. 110-114

Anouska Perram and Norman Jiwan

Remedy and Accountability a Decade after the Marikana Massacre pp. 115-119

Jordi Vives-Gabriel and Hugo van der Merwe

Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability, Erika George (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) pp. 120-122

Tim Bartley

Human Rights Litigation against Multinationals in Practice, Richard Meeran and Jahan Meeran (eds.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) pp. 123-126

Björn Fasterling

Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Karinna Fernández and Sebastián Smart (eds.) (Lexington Books, 2020) - Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes’ Lever, Leigh A. Payne, Gabriel Pereira and Laura Bernal-Bermúdez (Cambridge University Press, 2020) - Business, Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Irene Pietropaoli (Routledge, 2020) pp. 127-131

Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli

Volume 7, issue 3, 2022

Business and Human Rights in Latin America: A Systematic Review of Scholarship pp. 342-374

Cristina Blanco Vizarreta and Weronika Betta

Bridging the Gap between Foreign Investor Rights and Obligations: Towards Reimagining the International Law on Foreign Investment pp. 375-396

Nicolás M. Perrone

Inter-American Elements for a Systemic Approach to State-Owned Enterprises’ Human Rights Obligations pp. 397-417

Judith Schönsteiner

Marketing Ultra-Processed Food and Beverages to Children in Latin America: Business Responsibilities and State Duties pp. 418-438

Diana Guarnizo-Peralta

The Politics of Localizing Human Rights: Chinese Policies and Corporate Practices in Latin America pp. 439-460

Roger Merino

Is Latin America Missing the Links Between Procurement, Sustainability and Human Rights? pp. 461-467

Laura Treviño Lozano

Access to Remedy and the Construction of Collective Memory: New Perspectives in the Realm of the Colombian Transitional Justice Project pp. 468-474

Marco Alberto Velásquez-Ruiz and Carolina Olarte-Bácares

A New Route for Redress in the Samarco Case? An Overview of the Simplified Indemnification System’s (Un)Lawfulness pp. 475-480

Danilo B. Garrido Alves, Daniela Arantes Prata and Camila Manfredini de Abreu

Corporate Liability for Human Rights Abuses in Latin American Courts: Some Recent Developments pp. 481-486

Humberto Cantú Rivera and Miguel Barboza López

Missing in Action? Investor Responses to the War in Ukraine pp. 487-493

Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, Samuel Jones and Richard Stazinski

The Overlooked Advantages of the Independent Monitoring and Complaint Investigation System in the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Model in US Agriculture pp. 494-499

Antonella Angelini and Shauna Curphey

Gender Component of Internal Displacement in Ukraine: A Case of Business (In)Capability to Localize Human Rights Impact Assessment pp. 500-507

Ganna Khrystova and Olena Uvarova

Transterritorialidade – Uma Teoria de Responsabilização de Empresas por Violações aos Direitos Humanos, Ana Claudia Ruy Cardia Atchabahian (Lumen Juris, 2020) pp. 508-510

Danielle Anne Pamplona

Volume 7, issue 2, 2022

Intrinsic Values and Human Rights: Corporate Duties Depend on Industry Values pp. 189-200

Thomas Donaldson

Gender and Intersectionality in Business and Human Rights Scholarship pp. 201-225

Melisa N Handl, Sara L Seck and Penelope Simons

With Great (Computing) Power Comes Great (Human Rights) Responsibility: Cloud Computing and Human Rights pp. 226-248

Vivek Krishnamurthy

Corporate Responses to Tackling Modern Slavery: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, France and the United Kingdom pp. 249-270

Fiona McGaughey, Hinrich Voss, Holly Cullen and Matthew C Davis

The Potential of Arbitration as Effective Remedy in Business and Human Rights: Will the Hague Rules be Enough? pp. 271-290

Andi Baaij

The EU’s Draft Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: A First Assessment pp. 291-297

Christopher Patz

Coca-Cola’s Cape Town Crisis: Examining Companies’ Water Rights Obligations in a Changing Climate pp. 298-302

Shannon Marcoux

Vietnam Marine Life Disaster: A Test Case of a Home State’s Jurisdiction in Taiwan pp. 303-310

Chia-Yun Po

Candidate City Human Rights Proposals for the 2026 World Cup: The Promise of a Positive Legacy pp. 311-318

David Alfrey, Lucy Amis, Steve Nickelsburg and William Rook

Qatar Labour Reforms Ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup pp. 319-325

Mustafa Qadri

Jena Martin, Karen E Bravo and Tara Van Ho (eds), When Business Harms Human Rights: Affected Communities That Are Dying to Be Heard (New York, Anthem Press, 2020) pp. 326-328

Karin Buhmann

Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch Fanon (eds.), Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) 337 pp pp. 329-332

Erika George

Georges Enderle, Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) pp 316 pp. 332-334

Alexander Kriebitz

Volume 7, issue 1, 2022

Enough of the ‘Snake Oil’: Applying a Business and Human Rights Lens to the Sexual and Reproductive Wellness Industry pp. 12-28

Clare Patton, Marisa McVey and Ciara Hackett

Overcoming Silencing Practices: Indigenous Women Defending Human Rights from Abuses Committed in Connection to Mega-Projects: A Case in Colombia pp. 29-44

Nancy R Tapias Torrado

Fast Fashion for 2030: Using the Pattern of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Cut a More Gender-Just Fashion Sector pp. 45-66

Ramona Vijeyarasa and Mark Liu

Informal Mining in Colombia: Gender-Based Challenges for the Implementation of the Business and Human Rights Agenda pp. 67-83

Lina M Céspedes-Báez, Enrique Prieto-Ríos and Juan P Pontón-Serra

Women and the ‘Business’ of Human Rights: The Problem with Women’s Empowerment Projects and the Need for Corporate Reform pp. 84-99

Roseanne Russell

Reframing Corporate Subjectivity: Systemic Inequality and the Company at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Poverty pp. 100-116

Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Women and Digital ID in Kenya: A Decolonial Perspective pp. 117-133

Mutung’u, Grace

Reclaiming the Human Rights Foundations of the UN Standards of Conduct for Business on Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI People pp. 134-156

Amanda Lyons and Cooper Christiancy

Selling Stereotypes: Reviewing the Impact of Business Advertisements on Gender Norms and Socialization pp. 157-162

Bernadette Gutmann, Shreyasi Jha, O’Doherty, Emer and Ranjavati Banerji

The Human Rights Implications of Not-for-Profit Surrogacy Organizations in Cross-Border Commercial Surrogacy: An Australian Case Study pp. 163-167

Yingyi Luo, Shelley Marshall and Denise Cuthbert

The Implications of the Adoption of a Model Sexual Harassment Policy Within the Flower Sector in Kenya pp. 168-174

Mary Kuira

A Feminist Analysis of the Legal Mechanisms of Protection and Repair in the Context of the Brazilian Extractive Industry: The Doce River Case pp. 175-180

Juliana Bertholdi and Danielle Anne Pamplona

Private Military and Security Companies and Gendered Human Rights Challenges: Oversight or Blatant Disregard? pp. 181-187

Sorcha MacLeod and Nelleke van Amstel