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The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened inequality in the labor market, especially for marginalized groups, such as women, migrant workers, farm laborers, and also for certain sectors such as small and medium enterprises, precariat workers, and others. Due to unequal access to decent work, these groups experience discrimination and access barriers to other rights such as social security, and the right to health. economic security, sick leave, health care, or assistance during times of social restrictions. This situation is exacerbated by new business models, such as the platform-based economy or "gig economy" whose employment relationships are not standardized, and tend to reduce benefits and protections for workers.
Preparing a National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights can be considered as a socially engineered instrument in the context of developing a corridor in which to frame business relations with the universal standard of human rights. In addition, the NAP on Business and Human Rights can be placed as a strategy for the policies developed by a country to protect human rights from the impact of corporate operations that are harmful or detrimental according to the UN Guiding Principles.
This book reviews Southeast Asia’s National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights. The book asks, can NHRIs overcome its weaknesses and provide protection, including remedies, to victims of human rights abuses? Assessing NHRIs’ capacity to do so is vital as the future of human rights protection lies at the national level, and other parts of the architecture—the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), and the international mechanism of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)—though helpful, also have their limitations. The criti...
In Tunisia and Morocco.