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UN Human Rights Framework: What executives need to know about human rights Print E-mail

by Anthony Ewing

ethical-corpEthical Corporation (UK), February 17, 2011

Recognition of companies' human rights responsibilities is growing thanks to the work of John Ruggie. But what are the specific issues that business must address?

Human rights have been a concern for some companies since the anti-apartheid divestment campaigns of the 1980s, but there has been no broad-based uptake of human rights as a business discipline. Relatively few companies have human rights in their corporate vocabulary.

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