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• "Business and human rights: mapping international standards of responsibility and accountability for corporate acts" Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie. Feb, 2007  
  



• D. Kinley, J. Nolan & N. Zerial, “The politics of corporate social responsibility: Reflection on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations”, 2007 25(1) C&SLJ 30. (pdf file)
  


• Report of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights E/CN.4/2005/91 - 15 February 2005 (pdf file)
Decent Work. ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.
  

• Integrating human rights with sustainable human development: A UNDP policy document. United Nations Development Programme, January 1998.
  

• The UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - See Article 1.2 "All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources..."

• United Nations Charter
  

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• A comprehensive database of Human Rights documentation.
  

• International Labour Conference - Convention 169 ­ Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (27 June 1989)
  
  • See Article 2(2)(b) for the duty on state governments to promote indigenous social and cultural rights.
    
  • See Article 7 for the indigenous right to control local development.
    
  • See generally, Part II for the indigenous right to participate in management, use and conservation of local natural resources.
    
  • See particularly, Article 15(2) for the duty on government owners of minerals to consult indigenous peoples in possession of surface lands prior to exploration/development of subsurface resources, and to pay fair compensation to indigenous communities for damage caused by mineral exploitation.

• Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples, Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations in its eleventh session (U.N. Doc. E/CCN.4/Sub.2.1993/29/Annex I. 23 August 1993)
  
  • See Article 3 for the right of economic and social self determination.
    
  • See Articles 25-30 for the right to maintain traditional relationships to land and natural resources.
    
  • See particularly, Article 30 for the right to informed consent in indigenous communities prior to State actions affecting traditional lands.

• In Pursuit of Environmental Human Rights: Commentary on the Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment. Neil A.F. Popovic. Reference: Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 27 Colum. Human Rights L. Rev. 487 (1996).

• Articles about the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Bibliography)

• Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources. UN General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII).
  

• Sovereignty Over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties. Nico Schrijver. Reference: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (1997) - "analysis of the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law."

• Study on Indigenous Land Rights. Resolution of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the UN High Commission on Human Rights.
  

• The 1994 Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment. Promulgated by the Sierra Club, San Francisco, California, USA.