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Taking Rightsholders Seriously: From Stakeholder Engagement to Rightsholder Empowerment in Transnational Business Contexts (EXC 3039)

Third Party Funds Group - Sub project

Acronym: EXC 3039

Start date : 01.04.2026

End date : 31.10.2029

Website: https://www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de/en/

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Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights“ (EXC 3039) Jan. 1, 2026 - Dec. 31, 2032

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Transforming Human Rights

Scientific Abstract

The project assesses participation as a human right from a theoretical (foundational and normative) and practical perspective, with a focus on transnational business contexts. On a theoretical level, the project asks how participation is construed in international human rights law and how human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) laws and practices need to be transformed from the per-spective of rightsholder participation as a human right. We conceptualize participation not only as a right in itself, but also as an enabling condition for the realization of other substantive human rights, access to remedy, recognition, voice and social justice outcomes along global supply chains. Empiri-cally, the project will evaluate real-world experiences with participation in global value chains focusing on activities related to the global energy transition in four Latin American countries, which are con-nected to companies that fall under the German Supply Chain Due Diligence act or the French Duty of Vigilance law. In addition to diverse legal and social science methods, the project will also draw on transdisciplinary methods such as participatory legal scholarship (PLS) and transdisciplinary tools used in stakeholder workshops at both sides of global supply chains. The theoretical-normative and the empirical parts of the project will mutually inform and enrich each other throughout the project du-ration, with the aim of developing a theoretically guided and empirically sustained human rights-based approach to participation in transnational business contexts. The project will address all three dimen-sions of the Cluster and contribute to the megatrends of fragmented economic globalization and plan-etary environmental crisis. It combines law, anthropology, political science and business management in a multi- and interdisciplinary way. The project involves four Cluster PIs from law and social sciences, one participating organization, one external partner organization and other external partners. Funding is required for postdoc positions, field research, student assistants, participation in conferences and workshops.

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