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    Obstacles to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

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    Author
    Macdonald, K
    Date
    2020
    Source Title
    Melbourne Asia Review
    Publisher
    Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    MacDonald, Kate
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Macdonald, K. (2020). Obstacles to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia. Melbourne Asia Review, 3, pp.1-7. https://doi.org/10.37839/mar2652-550x3.8.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/252565
    DOI
    10.37839/mar2652-550x3.8
    Abstract
    In June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unanimously passed the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), amidst an atmosphere of cautious optimism. These principles provided a new set of global standards for preventing and addressing adverse human rights impacts associated with business activity, and have been described as ‘the single most important innovation in the human rights and business field in the last 25 years’. Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand—members of the UNHRC at the time the UNGPs were adopted—all voted in support of the framework, and several governments in the region subsequently indicated a potential willingness to develop National Action Plans to guide implementation. Nonetheless, almost ten years since the endorsement of the UNGPs, their implementation within Southeast Asia has remained slow and uneven.

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