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Finally, it can also develop international structures to set reasonable minimum standards that businesses must adopt in relation to human rights that can be applied across the world.
Sadly, in Germany, a lot of opposition comes from businesses who are concerned perhaps about the increased costs to ensure they are not in breach thereof. If the treaty is adopted widely, however, any such costs will have to be borne by competitors too. Indeed, business should not automatically been seen as against rights and it has many opportunities and responsibilities actively to contribute towards the realisation of rights in our society. Another equally unacceptable source of opposition comes from rigid lawyers schooled in the idea that international human rights only apply to the activities of states.
Lawyers need to learn from the mistakes of Nazi Germany too: In light of its history, Germany has a deep moral responsibility to stand up and lead the world in ensuring respect for the dignity and fundamental rights of individuals particularly where business is concerned. In a few months, the first draft of a treaty on business and human rights will be debated in Geneva.
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This offers a major opportunity for the government and business to change course and exercise leadership in meeting its historic and contemporary obligations to ensure a more humane world. Prof Bilchitz will argue the case for a business and human rights treaty followed by a panel discussion on 19 July at 17h00 at Humboldt University, Berlin. This will be followed by a one-day conference on the topic on 20 July by leading German academics.
To put it bluntly — this is attempted blackmail using Germanys undoubtedly horrible crimes between and Bilchitz, for this highly informative and actually convincing article! In fact, any legal interpretation should be based on historical facts as this represents the classical method of historical interpretation.
Auslegung der Gesetze; p. Further, the conclusions drawn by Prof. Bilchitz are perfectly in line with the view of the Bun-desverfassungsgericht. It ruled that our constitution, the Grundgesetz, is the counter-concept to the Nazi Dictatorship.
This very counter-concept is regarded as identity building to all of us cf. Laid down in our constitution, the German government has to comply with the principle of anti-national socialism. That leads not only the duty to refrain from certain acts but is reflected by various positive obligations, not only affecting inner affairs but the foreign politics alike e. Therefore, one could even go further than Prof. Bilchitz not only putting moral obligations but legal duties on the government: It is highly recognised that merely refraining from a violation does not suffice but there are duties to protect.
Promoting an International Treaty on Bussines and Human Rights would be one legal instrument to protect the Fundamental Human Rights set out in the Grundgesetz, binding not only the gov-ernment but through the famous third party effect private actors likewise. In this context, it is also worth pointing out, that the most important German Fundamental Rights not only protect German nationals but every human being affected by the German authorities or liable private actors.
Therefore, the introduction to the article by Prof. Bilchitz opens up various legal aspects but should not be understood as an accusation. Putting some historical moral obligation on the German people only is what one would certainly call in any other context "racism" or "discrimination".
These flows may seem minuscule and, in a way, they are: The difference however is that the new migratory flows lead to greater multicultural exchanges involving people of different cultural origins whereas in the past the migratory flows were primarily internal to the North Atlantic and that these migratory flows take place in a context of demographic stagnation: This means that an annual contribution of 0. This is obviously not a problem per se, but recent experience demonstrates that this may unfortunately generate successful bids for the political exploitation of issues of identity, particularly if adequate policies have not been set up to promote the creation of jobs, housing and the requisite infrastructures.
The number of migrants entering the European Union net of outflows has been halved, falling from almost 1.
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In the United States, where the recovery from the recession in was easier than in Europe, the flow remained stable 1 million per annum between and , and 0. There is a third fact that is worth bearing in mind alongside the first two. In other words, each time the countries in the Euro zone produce units of goods and services, they only consume and invest 95 in their own country.
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