The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?

IF 2.3 Q3 BUSINESS Business and Human Rights Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1017/bhj.2023.45
Stephanie Triefus
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Abstract Investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) has been heavily criticized from the perspective of human rights. However, the potential adverse human rights impacts of ISDS and the responsibilities of businesses to avoid causing or contributing to those impacts under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have yet to be spelled out. Although states are currently reforming ISDS, progress has been slow, and businesses have an independent responsibility to ensure that their operations do not harm human rights. Against this background, this article unpacks how businesses might contribute to three non-exhaustive examples of potential human rights impacts of ISDS: namely, the chilling effect on human rights regulation, crippling mega-awards and direct impacts on third-party rights. This article breaks new ground by exploring how human rights due diligence could be a useful tool for businesses to identify and address these impacts.
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联合国全球契约与投资者与国家间争端解决:企业是否应评估投资者与国家间仲裁对人权的影响?
摘要 从人权角度来看,投资者与国家之间的争端解决(ISDS)饱受批评。然而,根据《联合国工商业与人权指导原则》,ISDS 对人权的潜在负面影响以及企业避免造成或加剧这些影响的责任尚未明确。尽管各国目前正在对 ISDS 进行改革,但进展缓慢,企业有独立责任确保其运营不损害人权。在此背景下,本文探讨了企业如何促进 ISDS 对人权的潜在影响的三个并非详尽的例子:即对人权监管的寒蝉效应、瘫痪性巨奖和对第三方权利的直接影响。本文开创性地探讨了人权尽职调查如何成为企业识别和应对这些影响的有用工具。
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期刊介绍: The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) provides an authoritative platform for scholarly debate on all issues concerning the intersection of business and human rights in an open, critical and interdisciplinary manner. It seeks to advance the academic discussion on business and human rights as well as promote concern for human rights in business practice. BHRJ strives for the broadest possible scope, authorship and readership. Its scope encompasses interface of any type of business enterprise with human rights, environmental rights, labour rights and the collective rights of vulnerable groups. The Editors welcome theoretical, empirical and policy / reform-oriented perspectives and encourage submissions from academics and practitioners in all global regions and all relevant disciplines. A dialogue beyond academia is fostered as peer-reviewed articles are published alongside shorter ‘Developments in the Field’ items that include policy, legal and regulatory developments, as well as case studies and insight pieces.
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