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Article

10 Oct 2005

Author:
Bennett Freeman, Senior Counselor, Corporate Responsibility, Burson-Marsteller; Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State — Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; speech given at Wilton Park Conference on Business and Human Rights: Advancing the Agenda, UK

[DOC] To What Extent Can Voluntarism Provide Answers?

I will address the question largely in the concrete context of an initiative with which most of us are familiar and some of us have been involved—the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. [refers to BP, Anglo American, ExxonMobil, Occidental]