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Article

1 Sep 2003

Author:
Oliver Balch, Managing Editor of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, in Guardian [UK]

A question of answerability [article about U.N. norms on business & human rights]

Rather than simply making recommendations, governments need to show the political will to hold multinational corporations to account...[B]y putting the full body of existing legislation into one document, the UN is providing businesses with a long-overdue statement of what actually constitutes their recognised responsibilities...The reluctance of all but the most progressive multinationals to stamp out human rights abuses throughout their supply chain provides one clear argument for the necessity of the norms.