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12 Dec 2012

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Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum (produced jointly by the United Nations Global Compact and Maplecroft, and is funded by the GE Foundation)

Understanding the corporate responsibility to respect human rights

John Ruggie...Special Representative of the Secretary-General...issued the "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework" which the Human Rights Council endorsed in June 2011. The Framework is based on three pillars:The State duty to protect...The corporate responsibility to respect...Access to remedies...Operationalising human rights...The Framework, as clarified by the Guiding Principles document specifies the main components...

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