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Article

29 Sep 2016

Author:
Jamaa Resource Initiatives (Kenya)

Kenya: Local NGO urges govt. to engage UN Intergovt. Working Group on proposed treaty

"Engage in the New UN Intergovernmental Working Group in the Process of Creating a Treaty to Address Corporate-Related Human Rights Abuses"

Jamaa Resource Initiatives call on you to engage actively and constructively in the activities of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) that has been established to construct a new treaty to address corporate-related human rights abuses...By supporting this resolution, you will...send an important signal to the other UN members that it is time for everybody, including businesses [to]...respect human rights and be held legally accountable when they do not.