SOURCES
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Human Rights Case against Corruption
OHCHR’s pamphlet, The human rights case against corruption, briefly outlines the case against corruption from a human rights perspective. It explores the nexus between the promotion and protection of human rights and corruption, including through discussion of relevant human rights ... Read more
Year of publication: 2013
OHCHR Recommended Principles on Human Rights and Asset Recovery
The present Principles are designed to support international cooperation in the context of asset recovery by detailing a human rights-based approach to the recovery and return of proceeds of corruption, and by providing best practices. The Principles highlight the ways in which human rights law and anti-corruption law can act as mutually reinforcing bodies of law despite having often been treated as fundamentally distinct from each other by States and practitioners. These two bodies of law can, however, be understood as complementary, and as being based on the same fundamental principles of the rule of law, accountability, transparency and participation... Read more
Year of publication: 2022
Trade Promotion and Human Rights: How States should use Economic Diplomacy to Incentivize Business Respect for Human Rights
In its 2018 report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/38/48), the Working Group on Business and Human Rights* examines how States can incentivize business respect for human rights through “economic diplomacy” policies and tools. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ... Read more
Note: This document discusses the promotion of anti-corruption pledges.
Also available in: French
Year of publication: 2018
Connecting the business and human rights and the anti-corruption agendas
The Working Group examines how the business and human rights agenda, articulated in the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and anti-corruption efforts, are interconnected. It examines the good practices that States, businesses and civil society can undertake to address corruption when it has negative impacts on human rights in the context of business-related activity, with a view to preventing such negative impacts and to ensuring access to remedy. It also demonstrates how measures driving responsible business practices in relation to business and human rights and anti-corruption efforts, can reinforce each other to ensure coherent policy... Read more
Year of publication: 2020