Essex Business and Human Rights Research Group

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The demands of human rights impact on businesses, at a steadily increasing pace. This opens a complex and fast changing field of concerns, posing challenges to law and to the social and natural sciences.

The Essex Business and Human Rights Research Group encourages dialogue across these disciplines and among actors from a broad range of backgrounds. The group's aim is to foster research and to bring the results of that research to bear on practical problems, working on national and international issues and collaborating with partners across the world.

Projects previously undertaken by group members covered a wide range of areas, from balancing national and local human rights concerns in development projects, corporate complicity in human rights abuses, regional human rights law and multinational corporate accountability, commercial arbitration and human rights, extraterritorial treaty obligations and their impact on companies, project finance, development and human rights, unconscionable debt and resistance, social movements and human rights pressure groups and their impacts on business and management.

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University of Essex
Colchester