Business, Human Rights and Northeast Asia
A Facilitator’s Training Manual

Business, Human Rights and Northeast Asia
A Facilitator’s Training ManualMarch 2016
Osaka, Japan

Business, Human Rights and Northeast Asia
A Facilitator’s Training Manual
Published by the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgment................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6Introduction.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7About This Manual........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10Business and Human Rights: Concepts and Terms.............................................................................................................................. 13
Training Modules• Context of the Northeast Asian Subregion – Human Rights
Issues and Business.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 26• Context of the Northeast Asian Subregion – National
Development Policies and Business....................................................................................................................................................... 37• Implementing the United Nations Initiatives - UN “Protect,Respect and Remedy” Framework, UN Global Compact................................................................................ 50• Enforcing Labor Standards .................................................................................................................................................................................. 67• Using International Corporate Standards and Frameworks........................................................................ 88• Principles of Human Rights-based Approach to Access to Justice................................................... 96• Corporate Mechanisms and Access to Justice.................................................................................................................. 104• Administrative and Judicial Mechanisms and the UN Framework............................................ 118• Resorting to Mechanisms of International Institutions................................................................................... 129
Human Rights Documents• Universal Declaration of Human Rights........................................................................................................................................146• Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing
the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework.......................................................151
Other Suggested References...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 157