...This essay argues that the new GRI’s “G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines” fails, once again, to address the critical issue of living wages and relies on the same old multilateral norms that condone the corporate practice of paying misery wages in most countries in the South, despite the fact that a living wage has long been declared a human right...it should be clear that, under the UN charter, a living wage is a human right. Indeed, it is clearly stated in article 23 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially in points two and three, which refer to equal and just remuneration....To no one’s surprise, Wal-Mart was recently reported paying slavery wages in China of US $0,165/hour to garment workers instead of US $0,31 cents, which is the legal minimum wage in China, which is still a hunger wage.