Home States, Outward Investment, and Extraterritorial Rights Obligations

Home states have an important role in advancing responsible and rights-compliant outward investment. CCSI, through its research, technical inputs, and convenings, works to articulate how home states can do so. This work has included:

• a conference focused on home country measures to regulate foreign investment for sustainable development (background paper available here, and taxonomy of home country measures available here)
• various submissions to governments and UN bodies, including, for example: a memo to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, regarding its draft General Comment on State obligations under the ICESCR in the Context of Business Activities; a memo to the UK Government on the UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights; a memo to the US Government on the US National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct; and a memo to the US Government on the Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements
• research on home-country measures supporting international climate change mitigation and adaptation
• publications that address governments’ extraterritorial obligations related to human rights, including: an FDI Perspective, entitled “Land Investments and Human Rights: How Home Countries Can Do More”; and an entry written by Claire Debucquois and Kaitlin Cordes on “Extraterritorial Obligations of States and the Right to Food” in the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (2014)

Authors

Lise Johnson

Senior Fellow

Sophie Maria Thomashausen

KC

Kaitlin Y. Cordes

Lisa Sachs

Director

Sam Szoke-Burke

Themes

• International Investment Law

Tags

• Human rights