Volume 10 : 1
Editorial Introduction: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: The Emerging European Union Regime
The New EU Rules on Non-Financial Reporting: Potential Impacts on Access to Remedy?
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union
Business and Human Rights Abuses: Claiming Compensation under the Brussels I Recast
The Enforcement of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: From the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Legal Systems of EU Countries
State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis
Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union
Towards a Holistic Approach to Business and Human Rights in the European Union
Editorial Introduction: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: The Emerging European Union Regime
The New EU Rules on Non-Financial Reporting: Potential Impacts on Access to Remedy?
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union
Business and Human Rights Abuses: Claiming Compensation under the Brussels I Recast
The Enforcement of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: From the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Legal Systems of EU Countries
State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis
Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union
Towards a Holistic Approach to Business and Human Rights in the European Union
Year
2016
Volume
10
Number
1
Page
117
Language
English
Court
Reference
M. BORDIGNON, “State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis”, HRILD 2016, nr. 1, 117-138
Recapitulation
The recent growth of the international business and human rights (BHR) agenda has led to the emergence of an unprecedented debate regarding the role of the State in protecting human rights from corporate-related violations, as provided by the first pillar of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) on business and human rights. In this regard and following the adoption of the renewed European Strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility 2011–2014,1 many European and extra-European States have expressed in different ways their commitment to implementation of the UNGPs. Some of them have already addressed this issue, developing so-called national action plans (NAPs). The paper will thus adopt the UN Guidance, the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, the Danish Institute for Human Rights (ICAR-DIHR) Toolkit and the criteria of the de Felice-Graf paper as methodological instruments to conduct a crosschecked analysis both of the NAPs already released and of the NAPs’ consultation/drafting phases at a global level, with a special focus on the experiences of Italy, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US). For this purpose, the paper will provide a snapshot of the States’ action in adapting their internal legislation and policies to the international and European initiatives on business and human rights, taking into consideration both the consultation/drafting processes undertaken and the content of the NAPs.