Business Responsibility to Respect Indigenous Rights
- Content Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Americas Quarterly
- Volume
- 0
- Issue Number
- 0
- Publication Date
- Spring 2014
- Institution
- Council of the Americas
- Abstract
- While numerous United Nations mechanisms1 have addressed the impact of business activities on Indigenous rights, it was only in 2011—with the UN Human Rights Council's unanimous endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights—that the role of businesses in respecting, or abusing, these rights was officially acknowledged.