This document, the “Shortcomings of the Proposal of a Simplified Framework Convention on Business and Human Rights: A Diversion from Meaningful and Collective Progress towards Access to Remedy, Justice, and Ending Corporate Impunity,” is the result of collective work of diverse members of the Treaty Alliance (TA), including Corporate Accountability and FIAN International. The writers have based their analysis on discussions within the TA facilitation group and contributions by TA members in public debates on the topic.
This analysis underscores how the Framework Convention alternative proposed by a few Global North academics and nations not only undermines years of diligent deliberation undertaken by an inclusive global coalition, often lead by Global South nations, but also is a strategic attempt to weaken, dilute, and distract from the existing treaty (Legally Binding Instrument) discourse that has the potential to advance international legal liability for corporate human rights abuses.
