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7 Feb 2011

Author:
John Ruggie, UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, in letter to Financial Times

Let AI and HRW hold out the promise to rights victims [same letter as "Response to letter by Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch to Financial Times re draft Guiding Principles"]

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While AI and others have been busy writing letters justifying their indefensible advice to the UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty UK has been busy “urging” the UK Commons Select Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills to adopt the very proposals that Amnesty’s International Secretariat finds so inadequate...AI-UK clearly believes that policy is an important instrument for inducing change in the behavior of corporates. In contrast, the AI-Secretariat and Human Rights Watch reiterate their belief that only a binding international treaty will do...My aim, as I have stated explicitly from the beginning, is to reduce corporate related human rights harm to the maximum extent possible in the shortest possible period of time.

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