Abstract
This article examines the United Kingdom Government’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights and assesses it against the yardstick of corporate accountability. Despite containing statements such as that companies should treat gross human rights violations as a ‘legal compliance issue’, the UK NAP provides few sanctions for non-compliance with human rights principles, focussing instead on soft law standards and voluntary initiatives. Having examined the content of the UK NAP, the article puts forward suggestions for how it might be improved to increase corporate accountability for human rights impacts, which it comes to be re-visited in 2015.
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