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Special EDITION - Preventing Human Rights Violations by External Economic Involvement in the

22 Jun 2022

In their engagements with these countries, foreign businesses and states should take note of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Paris Principles, and UN Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/17/4, adopt effective human rights due diligence, and ensure that their policies and legislation are effective in preventing human rights violations by external economic involvemen. [...] Kenya and partnership in mineral exploration” and other areas of “practical Somalia are currently in a dispute over the potentially lucrative, cooperation.”The New York Times (2019) reported that mining triangular stretch of 100,000 square kilometers of offshore rights are being sold for fractions of the normal price to Russian territory believed to contain large oil and gas deposits. [...] In August 2018, three Russian particularly due to the expansion of the Gulf and Middle Eastern journalists were shot dead in CAR while investigating activities of security and economic space into the Horn region. [...] Under the auspices of the African escalated when Somaliland struck a deal with a Dubai-based Union (AU), with United Nations (UN) support, and synchronized with mediation efforts from Sudan and Russia, the government Kenya and Somalia are currently in a and 14 non-state armed groups signed the agreement on February 6, 2019. [...] Under pressure from western powers square kilometers of offshore territory (France and the Netherlands), the UN and the African Union, believed to contain large oil and gas general amnesty was not granted in the latest agreement, mostly because the 2015 Bangui Forum had established that impunity deposits and injustice were key drivers of cyclical violence.
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