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25 Jan 2013

Author:
Richard Howitt, European Parliament Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility

[DOC] Speech of Richard Howitt MEP, European Parliament Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility to the Polish Government conference on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Warsaw, 25 January 2013

Summing...up...I am saying to you:...join us in making business and human rights a cornerstone of your work on corporate responsibility; participate in a process already in preparation to draw up the national implementation plan...in...EU member states; raise your own awareness, but do so with others in business too; for companies, adopt a 'due diligence' procedure to be able to measure and then manage the human rights impact of your operations; for different arms of government, take your own responsibility for the state duty to protect under the Guiding Principles and join with us in Brussels to do so too...; and in that context specifically support and anticipate forthcoming legislation by incorporating social, environmental, human rights and anti-corruption information about the company as part of your annual financial report...On business and human rights: Make it happen. And remember the victim.