... and environmental organizations to promote democratic initiatives, such as binding referenda, that lead to the creation of municipal ordinances to protect the environment and preserve their natural resources. ...
... on a binding international treaty regulating the responsibility of states (including the state of origin) and enterprises with regards to human rights is so relevant.
The efforts made at the recent second ...
... Rights Attorney’s Office, PDDH, is a constitutionally stablished body and its recommendations to the government are binding and its compliance by the state is closely monitored. “This institution will ...
... of the "Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights”, which is to ...
... in domestic law.
Judicial independence
The plaintiffs argued that the exclusive power of the judiciary to interpret the treaty was violated.
The Chamber concludes that CAFTA is not binding on any ...
... of the legislative assembly.
And although UN call is not binding, the call is for member countries to comply with the UN recommendations of 2006 to recognize water as a human right, is for this reason ...
... to develop a binding treaty on the operations of Transnational corporations opens a window of opportunity to change that.
Ecuador was a driving force behind the UNHRC resolution in part because its citizens ...
... and 117 of the Municipal Code of El Salvador which outline the process for community consultations to be legally binding.
Under these regulations, municipalities are obliged to hold a poll on ...
UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations
Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
... that demand that the United Nations implement an internationally binding mechanism to hold corporations accountable for their involvement human rights violations.
“The Tribunal will examine cases that ...
... treaties include, which human rights treaties don’t. “We have to understand that governments sign human rights agreements due to social pressure, and they are non-binding, soft-law treaties. They sign ...
... they were not consulted about the project before it started operating. They are worried that a legally binding plebiscite in November 2019 that overwhelmingly rejected mining in the region is not being ...