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A Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? An Assessment of the Labour Provisions in the CAI from Chinese and European Perspectives KU Leuven
The EU- China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) presents a balancing act in labour rights protection. For the EU, labour rights protection constitutes an integral part of every trade and investment agreement it negotiates. China rarely includes labour provisions in trade and investment agreements. This article discusses current EU and Chinese approaches to integrating labour rights in trade and investment agreements, then introduces ...
An ever more entangled Union? The European Union's interactions with global governance institutions KU Leuven
Seeking remedies for corporate human rights abuses: What is the contribution of OECD National Contact Points? KU Leuven
Because existing legal frameworks have proven inadequate for the transnational regulation of business, various voluntary forms of governance are relied upon to fill the gaps. Of these, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises ('the Guidelines') is unique. Though not legally binding on MNEs, it is one of the only government-backed multilateral instruments that applies directly to firms and which is enforced by a unique complaint ...
Voluntary Sustainability Standards: State of the Art and Future Research KU Leuven
In this feature paper, we introduce voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and canvas the research that has been conducted on VSS from different academic disciplines. We identify four main areas of research on VSS and explore them. First, we focus on research on the institutional design of VSS, which highlights the diversity among VSS. Next, we explore studies that try to assess the impact of VSS on key sustainability dimensions. Third, we ...
Global Governance of Business and Human Rights: An Introduction KU Leuven
This chapter introduces the approach to the handbook which comprehensively discusses key global governance initiatives in the realm of business and human rights in two parts. The first part describes and assesses several specific governance initiatives in the realm of business and human rights. The chapters of this part are organized according to three components of regulatory global governance: norm-setting, implementation and enforcement ...