Rights holders across Asia and the Pacific continue to struggle to access effective remedies for business-related human rights abuses. While challenges vary across countries, business sectors, and other contexts, they commonly include fragmented, poorly designed or incomplete legal regimes; lack of legal development and enforcement; lack of awareness of the scope and operation of different types of grievance mechanisms; structural complexities within business enterprises; and problems in funding private law claims. These and other barriers to remedy are compounded by power imbalances between rights holders and business enterprises.
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Earlier Event: September 24
Enhancing Judicial Practice by Integrating Coercive Control
Later Event: September 26
From Compliance to Influence: Redefining Asia-Pacific’s engagement with mandatory due diligence