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Company Response

9 Apr 2014

Author:
G4S

G4S response to the Lou Pingeot report ‘Contracting Insecurity: Private military and security companies and the future of the United Nations’

[G4S] recognise[s] that we have a duty to ensure that we are not at risk of violating human rights through the services we provide, the customers we work with, the suppliers we use and through the fair and appropriate treatment of our own employees and others who are in our care. To help ensure that we fulfil this duty, we operate to a number of core standards...: UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights...UN Global Compact...International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers...G4S statements regarding specific issues mentioned in the February 2014 report by Lou Pingeot:...Delivery of the London 2012 Olympic contract...Mr Jimmy Mubenga...Mangaung Correctional Centre...HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMCIP) assessment of HMP Oakwood (2013)...Use of restraint at UK Secure Training Centres...G4S operations in Israel and the West Bank...

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