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Business and Human Rights: Further steps toward the operationalization of the “protect, respect and remedy” framework
Human rights due diligence can be a game-changer for companies: from “naming and shaming” to “knowing and showing.” Naming and shaming is a response by external stakeholders to the failure of companies to respect human rights. Knowing and showing is the internalization of that respect by companies themselves through human rights due diligence...[Contents include: Principled pragmatism...The State duty to protect...Conflict-affected areas...Extraterritorial jurisdiction...The corporate responsibility to respect...Legal compliance...Due diligence...Access to remedy...Judicial mechanisms...] [Report to UN Human Rights Council. Comments on the report are welcome - includes information on where to send them]