Colombia

In practice, corporate activities may have detrimental impacts on the enjoyment of human rights, be them rights of employees, members of indigenous communities, or others. Accordingly, some developments have taken place in the international level in order to address them through the protect, respect and remedy pillars of the business and human rights framework. Nevertheless, much of the concrete protection is to take place at the domestic legal levels, and often through ordinary legal tools and doctrines. This Chapter explores how the Colombian domestic legal system provides certain mechanisms in both private—including private international law—and public law provisions, such as torts law or constitutional developments on corporate due diligence, respectively, among others.