Business and Human Rights: Access to Remedy

• Forschungsstelle: AFM
• Projektnummer: 632236
• Projekttitel Englisch: Business and Human Rights: Access to Remedy

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

The Swiss government gives the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights the mandate of elaborating a paper about the access to remedy in the context of business and human rights in Switzerland and other states. This mandate is founded on Postulate 74.3663 Zugang zu Wiedergutmachung called for by the Swiss Council of States. The paper will make an important contribution of knowledge in the context of Switzerland implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by means of the National Action Plan lI is at present developing.

Projektziele (Englisch)

(a) By presenting some exemplary cases, show the importance of access to remedy in the home states of companies tor vulnerable groups whose human rights are violated by business activities.

(b) ldentify within present Swiss legislation and policy any existing gaps with regard to access to remedy and to suggest potential measures with which they could be closed (mcl. de lege terenda).

(c) Present and compare measures / Iaws / policies that states currently implement to provide access to remedy tor victims ot human rights violations in the context ot business activities.

(d) Present an assessment ot the ot the identified measures / laws / poilcies efficiency to provide remediation to victims of human rights violations in the context ot business activities.

(e) Evaluate the applicabiity ot measures / laws /policies implemented by other countries in the specific Swiss context.

The political appreciation and the presentation ot potential measures for Swiss action will take place at a later stage by the federal administration, and will be retlected within the report ot the Federal Council in tultiilment ot Postulate 74.3663