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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Please find below a forwarded email from Surya Deva of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. They are seeking signatures from academics (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">must have academic affiliation</span>) for an open letter that aims to advance the zero draft of the <strong> Business and Human Rights treaty</strong>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">If you or your colleagues have an interest in this particular initiative, please direct emails directly to Surya (see contact below) by <strong>28 September</strong>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">All the best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Luca </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>De:</strong> Surya Deva [mailto:suryad@cityu.edu.hk] <br /> <strong>Enviada em:</strong> quinta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2018 11:55<br /> <strong>Para:</strong> Luca Belli <luca.belli@fgv.br><br /> <strong>Assunto:</strong> RE: Invitation to join an open letter to states re the BHR Treaty</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #3333ff;" lang="EN-US">Please feel free to circulate to other academics who may be interested to join this letter. They should write to me (<a href="mailto:suryad@cityu.edu.hk">suryad@cityu.edu.hk</a>) by Friday evening. Thanks in advance! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #3333ff;" lang="EN-US">Should I add your name? pl let me know. </span></p>
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<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">As you may know, an open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights – established by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014 – is currently negotiating an international legally binding instrument: <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Pages/IGWGOnTNC.aspx" target="_blank"> https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Pages/IGWGOnTNC.aspx</a> The fourth session of the OEIGWG is scheduled for 15-19 October 2018 to discuss a zero draft of the proposed instrument as well as its optional protocol.</span></p>
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<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">I along with a few other scholars have drafted an open letter to states. Please see the attached letter. It makes three points: (i) that an international legally binding instrument is needed to complement existing regulatory initiatives at national, regional and international levels; (ii) that the zero draft of the proposed instrument as well as the optional protocol provides a concrete basis for states to negotiate in good faith; and (iii) that there is sufficient legal basis to hold further sessions (including the Fourth Session) without a new resolution of the Human Rights Council.</span></p>
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<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">We are inviting scholars from all the over world to join this open letter to states to be released on Monday, 1 October 2018. If you would like to sign the letter, please send an email to me – mentioning your name and your institutional affiliation – <strong>latest by Friday, 28 September</strong>. </span></p>
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<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">Apologies in advance for cross-posting. </span></p>
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<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">Tel.: (852) 3442 7370<br /> Fax: (852) 3442 0190</span></p>
<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">Skype: surya.deva </span></p>
<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">Twitter: @<a href="https://twitter.com/ProfSuryaDeva" target="_blank">ProfSuryaDeva</a></span></p>
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<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/building-treaty-business-and-human-rights-context-and-contours?format=HB#HMZi06S2oKfkjSfR.97" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours</span></a> </span></em></p>
<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/human-rights-obligations-business-beyond-corporate-responsibility-respect" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: black;">Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?</span></em></a></span></p>
<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415715270/" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: green;">Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations: Humanizing Business </span></em></a></span></p>
<p class="m-2308840664276880442yiv9076550148msonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #26282a;" lang="EN-US">Some of Surya's papers are available on <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=403831" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000cc;">SSRN</span></a></span></p>
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