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20 Sep 2010

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

[PDF] Message to the ten companies of the Business & Human Rights Initiative of the Global Compact Network Netherlands

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I write to congratulate you on the publication of “How to Do Business with Respect for Human Rights: A Guidance Tool for Companies.” It is gratifying to see a group of major companies coming together to examine systematically how the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and its attendant human rights due diligence requirements resonate with their current operations. You initiative has demonstrated that the business component of the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework for business and human rights makes sense and is doable...I very much hope that other companies will learn from your experience, so that human rights due diligence becomes standard practice...

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