The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 36
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- The obligations of States to ensure the respect of human rights by corporations engaged in natural resource exploitation in their own territory is clear. Less well-developed and understood are the extraterritorial obligations of States arising from the international human rights standards to which they have voluntarily acceded. At a minimum, States of origin should ensure that victims of human rights violations have effective judicial remedies. Doing so also entails a monitoring responsibility to ensure that companies operating abroad adhere to international human rights standards. States from the global North and Brazil, China, India, the Russian Federation and South Africa, where many of the companies engaged in natural resource exploitation around the world are domiciled, have an especially important role to play in this regard. For example, civil society groups in Latin America have in public hearings at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights highlighted the significant role of Canadian companies in human rights violations in the region, and the support provided by the Government of Canada, despite these allegations.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/29/25, para. 36.
- Paragraph number
- 36
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