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Article

11 Jan 2011

Author:
Lyuba Zarsky, Associate Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies, in TripleCrisis

Business and Human Rights: Searching for transformation

...[I]in early December, I found myself at a conference in The Hague organized by the World Legal Forum. Tagged “Business and Community in Dialogue: Connecting Corporate Responsibility and Global Governance,” the conference aimed to promote the emerging UN Framework for business and human rights. The main draw was...John Ruggie, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights and the primary mover and shaker in articulating and now operationalizing the Framework...What does—and doesn’t—the Framework offer? Does it significantly move the agenda and portend real change in the way that business does business, or does it let business—and government – off the hook?