‘How Can Contracts Contribute to Human Rights Protection in Global Value Chains?’

Contracts are the central building blocks for many developments in the transnational sphere such as the global value chains (GVCs) where they become vehicles for distribution, participation, and equality, a role more far-reaching than a mere buyer-supplier relationship (Eller, 1408, 1410). In this regard, the European Union’s (EU) recent Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) has also given a prominent role to contracts both as preventive (art 10) and corrective measures (art 11) regarding adverse human rights impacts in the GVCs … (more)

[Begüm Kilimcioğlu, Transformative Private Law Blog, 4 October 2024]

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