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5 Mar 2015

Author:
Jerome Chaplier, European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)

Commentary: EU is risking stifling progress by focusing on voluntary measures on business & human rights

"European Forum on CSR: The old feuds are haunting the European Corporate Social Responsibility debate and stifling progress", 5 Mar 2015

Will we go back to the old feud between mandatory VS voluntary compliance that kept polarizing the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? The discussions held in the last CSR Forum make us fear not just the status quo – but of the risk of going back 10 years in time....The calls for regulatory action were not just coming from NGOs. A Unilever representative rightly said that some issues can only be addressed through regulation...

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