The article traces the adverse human rights impacts of business responses to COVID-19 in the garment sector to long-standing systemic problems in global supply chain management. It scrutinises attempts by States and business enterprises in Europe to address these adverse impacts in the light of the ongoing implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The article discerns a shift in the European legal and policy framework from early attempts to promote corporate social responsibility to more recent modalities of home state regulation of corporations. In response to concerns that the EU’s regulatory turn in business and human rights may exhaust itself in perpetuating economic imperialism and market hegemony, the article highlights the importance of ensuring access to judicial remedies for foreign victims of business-related human rights violations; and of grounding unilateral home state regulation in a multilateral international legal framework.

这篇文章追溯了企业对COVID的反应对人权的不利影响-19 在服装领域，全球供应链管理中长期存在的系统性问题。它根据联合国工商业和人权指导原则的持续实施，审查欧洲国家和商业企业为解决这些不利影响所做的努力。这篇文章发现了欧洲法律和政策框架的转变，从早期的促进企业社会责任的尝试到最近的母国对企业的监管方式。针对欧盟在商业和人权方面的监管转向可能使经济帝国主义和市场霸权永存的担忧，文章强调了确保与商业有关的侵犯人权行为的外国受害者获得司法补救的重要性；