Protecting Human Rights and Dignity through SAP
ESR 8
The use of public procurement to promote social objectives, in particular the protection of workers’ rights and the promotion of labour standards, is instrumental in achieving especially SDGs 8 & 9. Against the backdrop of a highly complex and fragmented international regulatory framework, diversity of national approaches and a controversial theoretical debate, this individual project provides a unique opportunity to investigate the different ways in which human rights and social objectives can and should be pursued in public procurement. This includes:
- a comparative empirical analysis of the practical feasibility of promoting human rights within the current legal framework across several jurisdictions (including Germany and the UK)
- a normative assessment of the scope for human rights contract clauses in the light of the principles of efficiency and nondiscrimination.
ESR 8 is supervised by professor Olga Martin-Ortega and co-supervised by professor Tünde Tátrai.
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Learn More About Laura Treviño Lozano
With a multidisciplinary background, Laura holds a Bachelors in Law and undertook post-graduate studies on human rights at Universidad Castilla La Mancha, international comparative studies at Science Po, and an MSc in development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She held positions as researcher, advisor, and director of the first Business and Human Rights Programme in Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission. Her work focused on building capacities, policy advice, and research of business-related abuses against human rights, including those deriving from public contracts in education, health, mining, and infrastructure sectors.
Laura has collaborated with different UN agencies and initiatives in Tanzania, The Netherlands, Cameroon, and Latin America, mainly on sustainable development and human rights protection in the business context.
In this video, ESR 8 Laura Treviño Lozano tells us what her research project is about and how it contributes to society as a whole.
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Host Institution: University of Greenwich
PLANNED SECONDMENTS
Corvinus University of Budapest (3-month work with co-supervisor on human rights in the global supply chain)
Electronics Watch (3-month research and involvement in day-to-day activities of monitoring workers’ rights in the electronic supply chain and promoting labour standards)
Eating City (2-month research on protecting human rights and dignity in the catering industry)
