UN Working Group on Multinational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises on Human Rights

Working Group on Multinational ; Corporations and other Business Enterprises with respect to Human Rights. Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises
Organization type	Working group
Abbreviation	OEIWG
management	Emilio Rafael Izquierdo Miño
Founded	June 26, 2014
Headquarters	Geneva
Upper organization	UN Human Rights Council

The working group on multinational corporations and other business enterprises in relation to human rights was set up to create an internationally legally binding instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises in relation to human rights .

The UN mandate

At its 26th session on June 26, 2014, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 26/9, with which it decided to set up "an indefinite intergovernmental working group for transnational corporations and other corporations in the field of human rights."

Publications

July 16, 2018: Zero draft legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises
July 16, 2019: Revised draft legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises

Chair of the OEIWG

Surname
Luis Gallegos	Ecuador Ecuador	February 23, 2018
Emilio Rafael Izquierdo Miño	Ecuador Ecuador	January 28, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, mandates, [1]
↑ July 16, 2018: Zero draft legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, [2]
↑ July 16, 2019: Revised draft legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises [3]

[1] Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, mandates, [1]

[2] July 16, 2018: Zero draft legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises, [2]

[3] July 16, 2019: Revised draft legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises [3]