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[PDF] [US Council for International Business (USCIB)] Submission to the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the report on the “Responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights”
There is much that business has done and can do to help promote respect for human rights, but such efforts cannot replace the singular role of the State in implementing and enforcing national laws on human rights. States have and must retain the sole responsibility to implement international human rights laws and cannot shift that responsibility to companies.