At the Access to Remedy workshop, over thirty human rights defenders, community activists, and lawyers came together to discuss the challenges, share strategies, and make recommendations for improving access to remedy for human rights abuses linked to corporate activity in the Mekong Region.

As the 13th UN Forum Business and Human Rights comes to a close, once again the data shows that rights holder voices are not centered in that space.

Over the past four years, rights holders have comprised only 6% of the speakers at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. This post provides several rights holders’ perspectives on the Forum and concludes that the Forum is failing to be inclusive.

The consultative process for UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights’ s thematic report to the 77th session of the UN General Assembly framed the topic as “ensuring business respect for human rights in the political and regulatory sphere and preventing “corporate capture.” So why was corporate capture missing from the report?

There is an urgent need to understand and promote processes for mitigating and remedying corporate human rights harms in ways that lead to rights-respecting outcomes for local communities. This article explores how companies may use remedial mechanisms that on their face appear adequate to fairly address negative impacts on local communities, but nonetheless fail to remedy those harms.

Human rights work is a praxis of possibility when it is based in learning from and collaborating with people directly impacted by systemic injustice and oppression. This isn’t happening enough. This post examines this issue through the lens of epistemology, drawing on Santos’ book The End of the Cognitive Empire.