Wages: An Overlooked Dimension of Business and Human Rights in Global Supply Chains

Wages – the monetary payments that workers receive from employers in exchange for their labour – are widely overlooked in academic and policy debates about human rights and business in …

The Necessity for a Business and Human Rights Treaty

In June 2014, the Human Rights Council passed a resolution establishing an intergovernmental working group to discuss a legally binding instrument relating to transnational corporations and other business enterprises. In …

Binding Corporate Human Rights Obligations: A few observations from the South African Legal Framework

The South African Bill of rights binds private actors, as provided for in section 8(2) of the South African Constitution. However, section 8(3)(a) stipulates that when human rights provision is …

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