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1 Nov 2013

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World Economic Forum

Global Agenda Council on Human Rights 2013 [Abu Dhabi, 18-20 Nov]

The Global Agenda Council on Human Rights has chosen as its primary strategic goal to promote the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). It will initiate dialogue…to explore the implications of the UNGPs for specific sectors and to gain wider support for this agenda. It will seek to identify…good practice, share lessons and strategies from frontline sectors, and offer guidance on how human rights should be…respected in different business contexts. The Council also aims to make human rights and business issues “conversant” with other pressing global challenges…and to address the question of how human rights issues should be worked into…[CSR], sustainability and corporate ethics strategies, and…other discourses that drive the overall approach of business in this field…