This article analyses the role of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) within a business and human rights framework. A qualitative data analysis of cases on multinational enterprises (MNEs) ...

This article presents three arguments on why businesses have direct obligations under existing international law. Nevertheless, in the present state of international law, the obligations of businesses are limited and wholly ...

The article provides a panoramic overview of the factual and legal problems created by transnational business activities that negatively impact human rights around the world, and critically analyzes the strengths and gaps ...

Two literatures - business and human rights and transitional justice - can be usefully combined to consider the issue of corporate complicity in past human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflicts. But although ...

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the ...

Due to their widespread acceptance, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are currently the main normative body of reference in the field, and so, given their expressive functions, they permeate and determine ...

O presente trabalho busca ser um estudo exploratório e analítico do tratamento jurídico da escravidão no Brasil. Envolvendo dimensões teóricas acadêmicas e documentos oficiais, o estudo se divide em (i) uma abordagem ...