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Article

8 Jan 2008

Author:
interview of Louise Arbour, UN high commissioner for human rights, by Frances Williams, Financial Times

Interview transcript: Louise Arbour

It would be frankly very ambitious to promote only binding norms considering how long this would take and how much damage could be done in the meantime. So if there is a way of enlisting the corporate sector towards some sort of voluntary – I’d call it some sort of voluntary-plus – compliance..., this has to be encouraged while one continues to reflect on what these binding norms would actually look like.