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Days of general discussion
DGD
Discussion of the draft general comment on State obligations under the ICESCR in the context of business activities, 2017
Date
21 February 2017
AT
Palais Wilson
LOCATION
Geneva
On 21 February 2017, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights held a day of general discussion with States, businesses, trade unions, civil society, NHRIs and academics a practical tool to help States ensure that legislation and policies are in place to protect people whose economic, social and cultural rights are negatively affected by business activities.
Documentation
Inputs received
- Amnesty International
- Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Developments (APWLD)
- Brazilian Global Compact Network
Word | PDF - British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
- Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
- Centre Europe Tiers Monde (CETIM)
- Centre International de Conseil, de Recherche et d'Expertise en Droits de l'Homme (CICREDHO)
- Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) – Argentina
- Child Rights International Network (CRIN) - Word | PDF
- Civil Society Coalition On Human Rights In Manipur and the UN
- Claire Methven O'Brien and Lorand Bartels of the University of Cambridge
- Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
- Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP)
- Conectas Human Rights, HOMA - Human Rights and Business Centre and the Working Group on Intellectual Property_Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association of AIDS
- Council of Europe - Compilation of CoE written comments
- Council of Europe - the GRECO Secretariat (Group of States against corruption)
- Defensoria del Pueblo, Ecuador
- ECA Watch
- Emmaus Aurinkotehdas ry (Finland)
- FIAN International
Word | PDF - Franciscans International
- Global Alliance of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (GANHRI)
- Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Government of Colombia
- Government of Denmark
- Government of France
- Government of Guatemala
- Government of Italy
- Government of Jamaica
- Government of Mexico
- Government of Norway
- Government of Peru
- Government of Switzerland
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Hiran Catuninho Azevedo
- IDA-International Disability Alliance
- International Labour Organisation
- Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)
- Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
- International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCP), and the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF)
- International Organization of Employers (IOE)
- International Platform Against Impunity
- International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
- IT for Change
- Kaleidoscope Human Rights Foundation
- Landesa Centre for Women's Land Rights
- Legal Resources Centre
- Minority Rights Group International (MRG) - Word | PDF
- National Human Rights Commission of Mexico
- Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
- Northern Ireland Human Rrights Commission
- Norwegian NGO Forum for Human Rights
- O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University
- OHCHR-Cambodia
- Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER)
- Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Uganda Consortium on Corporate Accountability (UCCA)
- University of Connecticut, Business and Human Rights Initiative
- WATERLEX