Environmental Laws: Application and efficacy in business & human rights
Environmental Laws: Application and efficacy in the context of business & human rights
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March 30, 2022
This report explores how India’s environmental legal framework might be strengthened and leveraged to advance implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It assesses the extent to which the regime of environmental laws in India is capable of implementing two of the three pillars of the United Nations Guiding Principles– the duty of States to protect human rights and the need for access to remedy when human rights are abused.