Alcan, a leading global materials company...and AREVA, the energy multinational specializing in nuclear power generation and electricity transmission and distribution...have joined the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights. They will work together with nine other companies [ABB, Barclays, Hewlett-Packard, Gap, MTV Networks Europe, National Grid, Novartis Foundation, Novo Nordisk, Statoil] towards the principal objective of finding "practical ways of applying the aspirations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within a business context and to inspire other businesses to do likewise".