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Title: [PDF] Press release: Draft Guiding Principles for business & human rights posted for consultation
Visit: [PDF] Press release: Draft Guiding Principles for business & human rights posted for consultation
Author:
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie
Dated:
22 Nov 2010
Today...Professor John Ruggie, posted the draft “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” on his online consultation forum, http://www.srsgconsultation.org. The forum, intended to gather views from a broad range of stakeholders, will remain open until 31 January 2011. The Guiding Principles elaborate and clarify for companies, states, and other stakeholders how they can operationalize the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework, by taking practical steps to address business impacts on the human rights of individuals. The UN Human Rights Council had...asked Ruggie to provide this additional concrete guidance. "I hope that stakeholders in every region will take advantage of this opportunity to be heard before I finalize the text of the Guiding Principles," said Ruggie...[to be] present[ed] formally to the Human Rights Council at its June session.
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Visit: [Online consultation forum re] Draft Guiding Principles for the implementation of the U.N. "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework
Author:
UN Special Representative on business & human rights John Ruggie
Dated:
23 Nov 2010
In June 2011, the SRSG will present to the UN Human Rights Council his final report, which will include as an annex a set of Guiding Principles for the operationalization of the UN "Protect, Respect and Remedy" framework. The Guiding Principles elaborate and clarify for companies, states, and other stakeholders how they can operationalize the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework, by taking practical steps to address business impacts on the human rights of individuals...The purpose of this forum is to gather feedback on the draft report and Guiding Principles from a broad range of stakeholders. It will remain open until 31 January 2011, after which the SRSG will submit the final text for translation before presenting it formally to the Human Rights Council at its June session.
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