Economic Globalisation and Human Rights Archives - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

This book, edited by Morten Kjaerum and Martha F. Davis, looks at human rights, poverty, and inequality as a metonym for current and future challenges with regard to Sustainable Development Goals.

Contributors to the book cover many topics and thematic … Continue reading » “Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty”

COVID-19 and Human Rights

COVID-19 and Human Rights – edited by Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis, and Amanda Lyons – contains a series explorations into COVID-19 and its effects on human rights on a global scale. The book’s scope is wide, going from discussing … Continue reading » “COVID-19 and Human Rights”

The Integration of Human Rights in the Nationally Determined Contributions in Asia-Pacific to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

This study is the result of a collaborative research between the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), under its Regional Asia Programme on Human Rights and Sustainable Development (2017-2021), and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). The … Continue reading » “The Integration of Human Rights in the Nationally Determined Contributions in Asia-Pacific to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change”

A Two-Track, Multi-Channel Regulatory Model. Brief 4

The story of human rights corporate accountability is not a story of a move towards stringent international and transnational regulations. One discussion nowadays is whether the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) should be hardened into law. … Continue reading » “A Two-Track, Multi-Channel Regulatory Model. Brief 4”

Regulating in a Transnational Context: Three Foundational Principles: Brief 2

This brief, the second in a series of four, puts forward three foundational principles that explain the difficulties in regulating multinational enterprises. This has implications on whether more or less coercive strategies could be pursued to ensure responsible business conduct.… Continue reading » “Regulating in a Transnational Context: Three Foundational Principles: Brief 2”

Three Baselines for Business and Human Rights: Brief 1

After endorsing the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) in 2011, the UN began in 2014 work on a possible treaty on business and human rights. This brief explains the progression of legal reasoning around corporate human … Continue reading » “Three Baselines for Business and Human Rights: Brief 1”

Decentering human rights from the international order of states : The alignment and interaction of transnational policy channels

This article accounts for recent developments in corporate social responsibility, international trade and investment law, international human rights law, development aid, and the laws of home states reaching extraterritorially in order to advance a regulatory perspective on commerce and human … Continue reading » “Decentering human rights from the international order of states : The alignment and interaction of transnational policy channels”

Mainstreaming the Elements of Human Rights and Gender Equality Concepts in the Learning Process of Higher Legal Education System in Belarus: Materials of the International Educational and Methodological Seminar (Minsk, 30-31 October 2015)

Nowadays, human rights and freedoms and guarantees of their implementation are becoming basic values in development of society, both at national and international levels. The National Security Concept of the Republic of Belarus, approved by Presidential Decree No. 575 of … Continue reading » “Mainstreaming the Elements of Human Rights and Gender Equality Concepts in the Learning Process of Higher Legal Education System in Belarus: Materials of the International Educational and Methodological Seminar (Minsk, 30-31 October 2015)”