{"id":8564,"date":"2021-10-07T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cf.iisd.net\/itn\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:31:56","slug":"unwg-on-business-and-human-rights-releases-2021-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2021\/10\/07\/unwg-on-business-and-human-rights-releases-2021-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UNWG on Business and Human Rights releases 2021 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, 2021, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights published its 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/undocs.org\/A\/76\/238\">Report on Human Rights-Compatible IIAs<\/a>. The Working Group will formally present the report to the UN General Assembly on October 14, 2021.\u00a0 In brief, the report recommends that future IIAs be compatible with states\u2019 human rights obligations.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the call for input for the Working Group on Business and Human Rights\u2019 report , the International Institute for Sustainable Investment made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/Issues\/Business\/WG\/Submissions\/CSOs\/IISD_Response-to-IIAs-questionnaire.pdf\">submission<\/a> in April 2021.<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips73','international investment agreement'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, 2021, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights published its 2021 Report on Human Rights-Compatible IIAs.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips73','international investment agreement'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[1912],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-human-rights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}