1. 21 Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, UN Doc. E/CN.4./2005/L.87, April 15, 2005, para. 1.
2. 59 Id. (when accessed December 9, 2011, it included a reference to a “recent post” with information that a 36th individual had been killed in Texas on November 16, 2011.) Compare Amnesty International, supra note 56, making reference to 13 individuals executed since December 2010, and Nicholl, , supra note 3, which notes that at that time 17 individuals had been executed by use of a lethal cocktail containing pentobarbital.
3. 35 “Complicity in the business and human rights context refers to the indirect involvement of companies in human rights abuses. In essence, complicity means that a company knowingly contributed to another's abuse of human rights. It is conceived as indirect involvement because the company itself does not actually carry out the abuse. In principle, complicity may be alleged in relation to knowingly contributing to any type of human rights abuse, whether of civil or political rights, or economic, social and cultural rights.” SRSG, Clarifying the Concepts of “Sphere of Influence” and “Complicity,” UN Doc. A/HRC/8/16, May 15, 2008, at para. 30, see also at paras. 26–29.
4. 18 SRSG, State Responsibilities to Regulate and Adjudicate Corporate Activities under the United Nations Core Human Rights Treaties: An Overview of Treaty Body Commentaries, UN Doc. A/HRC/4/35/Add.1, February 13, 2007.
5. 23 Human Rights Council, Mandate of the Special Representatiive of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, Human Rights Council Resolution, June 7/8, 2008.