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Article

9 Jun 2004

Author:
Joe W. (Chip) Pitts III, entrepreneur, former Chief Legal Officer of Nokia Inc.

[DOC] "Bridging the Divide: Business, the U.N. Norms, and Corporate Social Responsibility"

[speech to United Nations Association of Dallas] From the standpoint of business, [the UN Norms on business & human rights] offer quite comprehensive yet concise content that reflects more harmonized rules, relevant across industries, in one convenient reference place, with potentially very useful and pragmatic applications. When we at Nokia built a factory in a Brazilian rainforest, for example, the Norms would have provided a very useful checklist of issues to consider addressing...the things that any responsible business would want to consider both as a matter of ethics and simple business sense.