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10 Dec 2008

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CSRWire

Business and civil society leaders call for better human rights disclosure

Today - on the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - corporate, trade union and civil society leaders have added their voices to the call by The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (Realizing Rights) for better corporate reporting on human rights...the following leaders have signed up as members of the project's Action Committee: [Kumi Naidoo, Honorary President of Civicus], Sharan Burrow, President, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American; B. Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel; Carl-Henric Svenberg, President and CEO, Ericsson.