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Article

4 Dec 2012

Author:
Dan Bross, Senior Director, Microsoft Corporate Citizenship

How Microsoft Did It: Implementing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

The new Guiding Principles challenges us, as well as other global companies, to move beyond from an issue-specific approach to human rights and toward a more systematic approach that considers all business activities across all human rights. In partnership with BSR, we have undertaken an approach based on four key elements:...An Enquiry-Based Approach at the Corporate Level...Microsoft’s Global Human Rights Statement...Human Rights Impact Assessments and Informing Our Work Going Forward...[Ongoing work]

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