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Report

7 Jun 2016

Author:
UN Working Group on business & human rights,
Author:
UN Working Group on business & human rights

Full report on state-owned enterprises & human rights

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In the present report, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises examines the duty of States to protect against human rights abuses involving those business enterprises that they own or control, which are generally referred to as State-owned enterprises...[T]he present report has two objectives: first, to call attention to and clarify what States are expected to do under the Guiding Principles regarding the enterprises that they own or control and why; and second, to help States to better implement the Guiding Principles by suggesting a range of measures that they could take to operationalize the requirement of additional steps to ensure that State-owned enterprises respect human rights...

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