The Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises that is tasked with developing a binding instrument on multinational enterprises’ human rights violations responsibilities, gathered for the third and final time in Geneva, for a meeting that will last until the end of the week. This time round however, the delegations are working from a base document containing elements that define the contours of the draft legally binding instrument. The document proposes implementing a requirement for businesses to adopt a ‘vigilance plan’ that can pre-empt human rights violations and the establishment of recourse avenues that can assess events in countries where multinational company subsidiaries operate and not just where any violations may have occurred.
The resolution adopted on 26 June 2014 by the UN Human Rights Council intended for the implementation of an Intergovernmental Working Group to negotiate binding international standards on multinational enterprises and human rights (c.f. article No. 8500). In extending the Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights adopted in 2011 by the UNO (c.f. article No. 110450) the goal is especially to safeguard access to legal redress for the victims of multinational enterprise related huma
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