Introduction

The course is oriented toward exploring the notions of *business* and Human Rights, as well as the relationships of interdependence within the international spheres of power and authority of Governance.

We will begin the course with a review of theoretical and conceptual aspects, then explore the evolution of rhetoric from the 20th century, emphasizing the analysis of public and private instrumentalization, and finally address the different dynamics of interventions and alliances that have taken place since the early 21st century.

The course has four main axes:

  • Human Rights, State, and International Organizations in the 20th Century: implications, context, regulations, actors.
  • Governance and Human Rights: evolution of rhetoric—United Nations, State, private sector, and civil society: Human Rights in the 21st Century: voluntary principles, norms/standards.
  • Delegation and the *nexus* between *business* and Human Rights at the global level
  • Constructions of power in the spheres of governance, *business*, and Human Rights: global networks, international governance organizations, international frameworks.

Methodology

  • Presentation of the course objectives and syllabus contents
  • Presentation of pedagogical material: set of graphics on the four axes of the course
  • Presentation of a consultation and research guide: individual or group work

Theoretical Framework

  • Governance, *business*, and Human Rights: theoretical and conceptual aspects
  • United Nations, *business*, and Human Rights: a new era of governance between the public and private sectors.
  • UN regulations/codes of conduct for Transnational Corporations: evolution of International Law and Human Rights frameworks.
  • Civil Society/NGOs, Human Rights, and Transnational Corporations: the notion of governance in the relations between private and public actors within global Human Rights frameworks.
  • Nexus between Public Governance, Private Governance, and Human Rights: disciplinary implications of the boundaries between public and private—transnationalization of the notion of public and private governance of Human Rights.

Basic Aspects of Governance, *business*, and Human Rights: 20th and 21st Centuries

  • UN, State, and Human Rights in the 20th Century
  • Human Rights: a national and global public good
  • Human Rights, State, and Development
  • Substantive aspects of the first regulations by international organizations on the relations between Human Rights and Corporations.
  • Governance of Human Rights
  • Governance, *Business*, and Human Rights in the 21st Century
  • Human Rights: a global public good
  • Human Rights in the Era of Delegation
  • Human Rights and the Right to Development
  • Governance of Human Rights

Regulation, *Business*, and Human Rights

  • Production of Human Rights norms and standards for the private sector
  • United Nations, global *partnership*, *business*, and Human Rights
  • Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights: Governments and Transnational Corporations, USA & UK, 2000.
  • UN: Framework for *Business* and Human Rights: Protect, Respect, and Remedy: UN Commission Report, 2008
  • UN: UN Human Rights Council: UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, 2011
  • UN and Transnational Corporations: Global Compact—*Pacto Mundial*: the Ten Principles of Global Compact/*Pacto Mundial* (GC/PM), 2000.
  • Nexus between the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (2000), the UN Global Compact Principles (2000), and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011)

ILO: Human Rights and *Business*: ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy/*Tripartite declaration on principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy* (MNE) (adopted 40 years ago—1977, amended in 2000 and 2006, revised in 2017) > ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 1998

OECD, *Business*, and Human Rights: OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises/*Guideline for Multinational Enterprises*, adopted in 1976, revised in 2000 > 2011 revision

Dissemination of *Business* and Human Rights

  • OECD, *Business*, and Human Rights: OECD Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct/*Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct*
  • Global networks of GC/PM: Global Compact/*Pacto Mundial* and Human Rights
  • UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

Business networks and Human Rights: EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) > Equator Principles > WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) > IBLF (International Business Leaders Forum) > Business Call to Action > Global Business Initiative on Human Rights……

  • Global Governance and Human Rights: G20, G7, WEF (World Economic Forum)……
  • Networks of international organizations and Human Rights
  • Networks of non-governmental organizations: NGOs, *Business*, and Human Rights
  • Networks of new international governance organizations on Human Rights: reporting, corporate social responsibility (CSR)……
  • Dissemination of the *Business* for Development/*Business for Development* rhetoric

Corporations and Human Rights

Involvement of Corporations/private sector in deregulation-regulation policies: emergence of independent private authority bodies—policy makers, law makers.

  • Business sector/corporate sector and Human Rights: public governance/private governance of Human Rights.
  • Nexus between the new global normalization system—principles, standards, transparency, anti-corruption, corporate social responsibility, *accountability*, and Human Rights.
  • Transparency, natural resources, and Human Rights: private governance of Human Rights.
  • Private corporate entities: dissemination and implementation of voluntary corporate principles in the field of Human Rights

Private civil society entities: dissemination and implementation of UN Human Rights principles and standards, and voluntary corporate principles and standards

New Forms of Human Rights Governance: *Stakeholders*

  • Emergence of the notion of multiple *stakeholders*/*Parties*
  • Multiple *stakeholders* and decision-making: governance, *business*, and Human Rights
  • Multiple *stakeholders*, *business*, and international public policies on Human Rights
  • Global Public Goods, Human Rights, and *stakeholders*
  • Governance of global public goods and the boundaries between public and private in Human Rights: *stakeholders* and decision-making
  • Multi-level governance and Human Rights: decision-making in different spheres of power and authority.
  • Multiple *stakeholders*: global private/corporate sector—Transnational Corporations and Human Rights

UN Agendas: MDGs (2000–2015) & SDGs (2030) and Human Rights.

  • Millennium Development Agenda and Human Rights

UN Declarations in the New Millennium and new *business* and Human Rights agendas

MDGs and Human Rights

  • 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Human Rights
  • Sustainable Development 2030 and *Business* for Development
  • Nexus between State, Human Rights, and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
  • Nexus between private sector, Human Rights, and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
  • Old International Organizations (IOs), Human Rights, and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
  • New International Governance Organizations (IGOs), Human Rights, and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Human Rights and COP 21 >>>> COP 16 & COP 17

Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Human Rights: Paris Agreement 2015 >>> COP 2016 Marrakech & COP 2017, Bonn

CONCLUSIONS: the great transformations of Human Rights in international relations and the governance, *business*, and Human Rights paradigm.

Basic Bibliography

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  • Koenig-Archibugi, M., and Zürn, M., (Editors), 2006, New Modes of Governance in the Global System: Exploring Publicness, Delegation and Inclusiveness, Palgrave MacMillan.
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  • UN, Sagafi-Nejad, T., in collaboration with John H., Dunning, 2008, The United Nations and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact, United Nations Intellectual History Project Series, Indiana University Press.
  • UNDP: Kaul, I., Grunberg, I., Stern, M., A., (edited by), 1999, Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st. Century, published by UNDP, New York
  • Tesner, S., 2000, The United Nations and Business: A Partnership Recovered, St. Martin´s Press

Complementary Bibliography

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  • Benvenisti, E., 2014, The Law of Global Governance, Hague Academy of International Law
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  • Business and Human Rights: http://www.business-humanrights.org
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  • EITI: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative/Iniciativa para la Transparencia de las Industrias Extractivas: http://www.eiti.org

EJIL: European Journal of International Law: Vol. 23 (2012) No. 3: Symposium Global Public Goods and the Plurality of Legal Orders: pages, 643 to 769: Ejil: http://www.ejil.org > https://academic.oup.com/ejil European Journal of International Law/Oxford Academic

Equator Principles: Equator Iniciativas: Partenariado entre la ONU, la sociedad civil, el sector privado y el Estado/Gobierno: http://www.equator-principles.com

Flinders, M., 2005, the Politics of Public-Private Partnerships, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 7(2):6-19

Global Compact, Naciones Unidas: los diez principios del Pacto Mundial de las Naciones Unidas: los principios tienen como referente las siguientes Declaraciones: La Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos; Declaración de la OIT sobre los principios y derechos fundamentales del trabajo; la Declaración de Rio Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo; la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Corrupción: http://www.globalcompact.org

Haufler, V., 2001, A Public Role for the Private Sector: Industry Self-Regulation in a Global Economy, Washington, DC, Carnegie Endowment.

Hooghe, L., and Gary, M., 2003, Unraveling the Central State, but how? Types of Multi-Level Governance, American Political Science Review 97 (2): 233-243.

Human Rights and Sea: Human Rights at Sea: https://www.humanrightsatsea.org > Mar Rights, IMHR The International Maritime Human Rights Conference: https://mar-rights.com > Missing Seafarers & Fishers Reporting Programme: https://www.missingseafarers.org

IBLF: International Business Leaders Forum: http://www.iblfglobal.org

Krasner, S., D., and Risse, Th., 2014, External Actors, State-Building and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction, Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, Vol. 27, No 4, October 2014, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Risse, Th., (ed), 2011, Governance without a State? Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood, New York: Columbia University Press.

Sauvant, K. P., 2015, The Negotiations of the United Nations Code of conduct on Transnational Corporation: experience and lessons learned, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia Law School, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, Brill Nijhoff, The Journal of World Investment & Trade: http://www.ccsi.columbia.edu

Thatcher, M., 2002, Regulation after Delegation: Independent Regulatory Agencies in Europe, Journal of European Public Policy 9 (6): 954972

OECD/OCDE: La Gouvernance au XXI siècle, 2002, OECD Publishing > http://www.oeced-library.org/gouvernance-au-xxie-siecle_9789264289369-fr > OCDE Líneas Directrices para Empresas Multinacionales: http://www.oecd.org/daf/investment

UNCTAD: Transnational Corporations, 2005, Volume 14, Number 3, ONU, New York: http://www.unctad.org/Docs/iteiit20059_en.pdf > UNCTAD, The Social Responsibility of Transnational Corporations: 1999, New York and Geneva: http://www.unctad.org/en/Docs/oiteiitm21_en.pdf

  • UN Business Partnerships: A Handbook, United Nations Global Compact, 2013, New York
  • UN Business: http://www.business.un.org
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UN Human Rights: Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework 2011: “Principios Rectores sobre las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos” 2011: Introducción a los Principios Rectores sobre las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner ACNUDH 2013.

  • UN: Jolly, R., Emmerij, L., Ghai, Dh., Lapeyre, F., 2004, UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice: United Nations Intellectual History Project Series, Indiana University Press.
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  • UNCTC Code of Conduct for transnational Corporations: United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations, 1978 > 1983, Commission on Transnational Corporations ONU.

UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático y los Derechos Humanos: Acuerdo de Paris 2015: CoP 21 >>>> CoP 2016 Marrakech & CoP 2017, Bonn: http://www.unfccc.int

WBCSD: World Business Council for Sustainable Development: http://www.wbscd.org

Zellweger, Th., 2017, Managing the Family Business: Theory and Practice, EE Elgar

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