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Article

1 Jan 2003

Author:
Human Rights Policy Graduate Workshop, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University [USA]

[PDF] full report: "The Promise of a Human Rights and Business Commission"

...The number of human rights related complaints that are lodged against businesses and the attention paid to the behavior of companies operating in developing countries reveals a need for an alternative dispute resolution process that is specifically charged to address and resolve human rights and business disputes...Voluntary principles, codes of conduct, and international guidelines often do not hold businesses fully accountable to their stated intentions to abide by the principles, and often they do little to decisively solve contentious disputes...We propose the establishment of a Human Rights and Business Commission that aims to fill the gap in existing mechanisms and seeks to resolve human rights and business disputes in an expeditious and effective manner.