Letnar Cernic, Jernej, A Short Comment on the Report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises (October 20, 2009). Libertas Working Paper 02/2009.

A Short Comment on the Report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises

Jernej Letnar Černič

Abstract

A short comment on the 2009 report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie to the United Nations Human Rights Council, “Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework” AH/HRC/8/5, April 22, 2009.
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Jernej Letnar Černič
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Jernej Letnar Černič is Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies (Ljubljana and Kranj, Slovenia)

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A short comment on the 2009 report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie to the United Nations Human Rights Council, “Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework” AH/HRC/8/5, April 22, 2009.

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