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Article

11 Jun 2008

Author:
Anne Moore Odell, SocialFunds.com [USA]

Investors Support UN Business and Human Rights Mandate

...[UN] special representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie presented his findings on business and human rights to the United Nations Human Rights Council last week. His third report...provides a framework for corporations to be held responsible for global human rights. A coalition of socially responsible investors, led by the Social Investment Forum (SIF), showed their support of Ruggie's framework in a letter sent to the Eighth Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, asking it to extend Ruggie's mandate. [refers to BP, Acro (now part of BP)]