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1 Nov 2011

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Advocates for Intl. Development (A4ID)

[PDF] Law Firms' Implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights: Discussion Paper

Law firms have played an active role in supporting the development of the Guiding Principles and are advising companies on their application. Counselling clients on their need to take effective steps to prevent and remediate negative human rights impacts is a key means through which law firms can meet their own responsibility to respect human rights...However, it does not appear that any of the world’s largest law firms has a publicly available, high-level policy commitment to respect human rights in the management of its business, and very few firms meaningfully communicate their impacts on human rights to affected stakeholders. [refers to Shell, Nike, Yahoo!]