The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“UNGPs”) were a major step towards overcoming human rights abuses committed in business operations. However, there is currently no mechanism to ensuring all governments around the world actually provide avenues for remedies for victims. Volume XLVIII staffer Patrick Windels argues that both national and international Courts should increase their usage and reference to the UNGPs in order to further integrate and legitimize the UNGPs into the global community bloodstream. This post explores the current inability of the UNGPs to ensure access to remedies for victims in all parts of the world, as well as a potential fix to this problem.
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