Business and Human Rights in Africa Network

over the last several decades, the african continent has been the epicentre of complex human rights, environmental and social impacts resulting from industrial activities, manufacturing processes, and resource production operations, particularly in extractive and fast moving consumer goods (fmcg) industries. consequently, responding to current and anticipated human rights impacts of business activities and transnational investments on local communities is squarely at the forefront of the political and legislative agenda across the continent. however, despite the rise in policy formulation on business and human rights, legal preparedness to effectively implement the ungps remains uneven across the region – in terms of having comprehensive laws, policies, and harmonized institutions on bhrs. several of the existing literature and guidelines on business and human rights have tended to offer transplanted and prepackaged solutions from other jurisdictions that do not fundamentally consider