The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights present an exciting opportunity to work together, and should not be feared, says the Ethical Trading Initiative’s Peter McAllister...A year on from publication, Professor John Ruggie’s UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are becoming common parlance in CSR circles. We’re starting to get under the skin of the ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ framework, and understand what it’s all about. But there is an understandable fear – the framework sounds fantastic in theory, but businesses are anxious about what requirements it places on them. The Ethical Trading Initiative is actively exploring these questions with our members. The more we talk and share information, the clearer it becomes that while the guidelines will present challenges, there is more to be gained here than feared...Peter McAllister, Executive Director of Ethical Trading Initiative. John Morrison Executive Director of the Institute of Human Rights and Business. Annemarie Muntz Director Public Affairs Randstad Holdings and President of the European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies and Philippe Gailey Policy Officer at the European Commission will be discussing human rights implementation in further detail at the Responsible Business Summit May7th and 8th in London [refers to GE, Coca-Cola, Clifford Chance]