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Article

18 Sep 2010

Author:
UN Special Representative on business & human rights John Ruggie

[PDF] Response to Jus Semper

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If I am made out to be a free-market fundamentalist, and if the critique of my work as SRSG is based on that premise, then there isn’t very much for me to say in response. As I pointed out in my reply to the last Jus Semper submission, which made essentially the same argument, all of my academic work and everything I have done as SRSG contradicts the premise...Moreover, the claim that I do not engage in dialogue simply is not supported by the facts. I have just finished the 41st consultation of my mandate, held on all continents and with all sectors of society, and I have responded to almost every critique that has been sent to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre...I have moved systematically from what originally was a research mandate...on to proposing an overall policy framework that the Human Rights Council welcomed unanimously, and now to the drafting of Guiding Principles.