Category: Business and Human Rights Journal Symposium

Building on Nyerere: Rethinking Business and Human Rights through the African Charter and (indigenous) African Perspectives

Starting on Solid Ground Regions across the so-called ‘Global South’ are rich in resources, such as oil, minerals, cobalt, gold and fertile agricultural land, that are scarce elsewhere, making them…

The Repurposing of Individual Duties and the Making of an African Approach to Business and Human Rights

The African System as a “Norm Leader” As Obiora Okafor and Godwin Dzah wrote, the African human rights system is rarely imagined as “an originator, agent and purveyor” of norms.…

Africa as Norm-Maker: Introducing the BHRJ/ALS Blog Symposium on Business, Human Rights, and African Legal Thought

Setting the Stage The Business and Human Rights (BHR) field has long been dominated by frameworks emanating from the Global North, most notably the 2011 United Nations Guiding Principles on…