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16 Jun 2009

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Policy Innovations interview with Christine Bader, Advisor to UN Special Representative on business and human rights

Ethics in Business: Interview with Christine Bader

[Human rights] is increasingly the lens through which people view how business impacts them. So CSR is sort of whatever companies want it to be, they define it in terms of whatever they think it should be; whereas human rights, people start with the point of "here are my rights and, company, you have come in and infringed upon these rights." So that's the lens through which people view company activity. [refers to BP]