Reclaiming the Human Rights Foundations of the UN Standards of Conduct for Business on Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI People

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ID13019237
AuthorsAmanda Lyons (0000-0002-1283-8658, University of Minnesota, corresponding author), Cooper Christiancy (University of Minnesota)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue1
Pages134-156
Publication date2022-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness and Human Rights Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2057-0198 • E-ISSN: 2057-0201
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/bhj.2021.32
OpenAlexW4214835697
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited14

The business and human rights field and the international LGBTI human rights agenda have evolved almost entirely separately. The United Nations ‘Standards of Conduct for Business on Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI People’ (2017) is the primary effort to bridge this gap. Although drafted in a way that strongly aligns with the second pillar of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on corporate responsibility, the dissemination of the Standards has mainly been untethered from the human rights framework and system. This article identifies the need to reassert the human rights foundations of the Standards and leverage their existing momentum to set out a more robust research and policy agenda for meaningfully accounting for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics in business and human rights frameworks. To that end, the article sets out priority areas for greater attention from researchers, decision-makers and advocates

Corporate social responsibility · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Public relations · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Corporate Law and Human Rights · Gender Studies · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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