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Article

17 Jan 2011

Author:
John Ruggie, UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights

[PDF] [Letter to the Editor, Financial Times, in response to article on NGO criticism of draft Guiding Principles on business & human rights]

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Hugh Williamson reports (17 January 2011) that Amnesty and some other pressure groups fear that adoption of a proposed set of guiding principles for implementing the UN “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework in the area of business and human rights “risk undermining efforts to strengthen corporate responsibility,” and that “the current draft should not be adopted by the Human Rights Council.”...First, these same organizations keep telling the world that there currently are no global standards in the area of business and human rights...Second, these same organizations use the UN framework constantly...Third, Amnesty and the others would have a lot to answer for if they actually were to oppose Human Rights Council endorsement of this hard-won initiative.

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NGOs criticise UN Special Representative Ruggie's draft Guiding Principles on business & human rights

Déclaration commune de la société civile sur le projet de Principes directeurs du Représentant spécial de l'ONU sur les entreprises et les droits de l’homme