"If Cisco Supports Ruggie, It Should Have No Problem Signing Holy Land Principles", 07 July 2015

The Silicon Valley giant networking company Cisco is being challenged to show it is committed to the Ruggie Principles by signing the Holy Land Principles. The Ruggie Principles ("The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights") were proposed by Special Representative John Ruggie and endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011. The Holy Land Principles — a corporate code of conduct for the 545 American companies doing business in Palestine-Israel— were launched by Fr. Sean Mc Manus on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2012. The Holy Land Principles are based on the Mac Bride Principles, which Fr. Mc Manus also launched on November 5, 1984. Fr. Mc Manus said: "The Ruggie Principles cannot exist in a vacuum; they must be particularized: applied concretely in a particular location or country. That is why we claim that signing the Holy Land Principles is a practical and efficacious way, among other things, of implementing the Ruggie Principles...