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1 Sep 2003

Author:
Jus Semper Global Alliance

[PDF] Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights: Commentary on Human Rights Norms for MNCs

The UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights has drafted norms that signal a possible advent of compulsory CSR but continue to legitimize a structure that generates sheer inequality between North and South...In the area of...the right to a living wage...the Norms maintain the same criterion currently used by the ILO and other frameworks. This makes the concept of fair compensation clearly ambiguous...they leave it open to anyone to interpret what are an adequate standard of living and a just wage.