Human Rights Impact Assessment in the Context of Biofuels

Addressing the Human Right to Food and the Human Right to Water

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ID12965620
AuthorsHans Morten Haugen (0000-0003-3027-3547, VID Specialized University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume28
Issue01
Pages39-61
Publication date2010-06-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordic Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1891-814X • E-ISSN: 1891-8131
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.18261/issn1891-814x-2010-01-04
OpenAlexW2221173376
LanguageEN
Citations received2

The original mandate of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights said that he should „develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments.‟ Since then, tools for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) have developed by different actors. This article reviews two such tools, both of which are up for revision in 2010. One is by the International Finance Corporation, International Business Leaders Forum and Global Compact, the other by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. The article finds that substantive human rights and human rights principles are well understood by the former, while the latter seems to have an inadequate understanding of crucial human rights principles, such as non-discrimination, but the latter has some procedural strengths as compared to the former

Agriculture · Business · Context (archaeology · Corporation · Economics · Food security · Geography · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Mandate · Political science · Right to food · Human Rights and Development · International Environmental Law and Policies · Law · Public Administration · World Trade Organization Law

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