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10 Feb 2011

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Launch of Regional Briefing - Business & Human Rights in Anglophone Africa

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Today the non-profit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is launching its first regional briefing on "Business & human rights in Anglophone Africa - a round-up of recent developments."...The briefing provides a reality-based snapshot of business' human rights impacts in the region. It highlights concerns raised by civil society, company responses to allegations of misconduct, positive initiatives by business, and developments in law, policy and lawsuits. Subjects in the briefing range from efforts in new oil economies such as Ghana and Uganda to avoid the "resource curse," to a landmark ruling by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights regarding tourism and indigenous people in Kenya.