"National Action Plan must address companies' human rights impacts in USA, not only abroad"

Human rights abuses involving companies occur at home as well as overseas...[We] urge the US Government to not restrict its NAP to companies’ overseas conduct...[We] profile over 100 major human rights lawsuits against companies around the world. Of these, 47 have been litigated in US courts...[Over] one-fourth [of these] are based on human rights impacts in the USA, such as racial and gender discrimination, environmental impacts on health and livelihoods, and abuses by private prison companies.  Some key examples [follow]... [refers to BP, Gilead Sciences, Walmart]