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31 Mar 2012

Author:
UN Working Group on business and human rights

[PDF] Public Consultation on the Independent Governance and Oversight Mechanism of the ICOC

The...Working Group on Business and Human Rights recognizes the efforts of the Government of Switzerland and other participants in the conception of an international code of conduct and a multi-stakeholders initiative on the issue of private security companies and other security service providers...[The] Temporary Steering Committee of the ICOC and other participants to the multi-stakeholders initiative should...seek to make these rules and processes on private security consistent with the UN Guiding Principles...[T]he Working Group would like to drawn the Temporary Steering Committee's attention to the following elements of the UN Guiding Principles...The complementary of state duties and corporate responsibility...[;] Business partners and relationships with other parties...[;] Certification and Performance Assessment...[;] Grievance Mechanism...