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22 Mar 2015

Author:
Professor John Ruggie, Former UN Special Representative for Business & Human Rights

Professor John Ruggie's statement on RAID report

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The paper draws some sweeping inferences and reaches encompassing conclusions about purported shortcomings of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)...There is no need for me to respond to the various specific assertions by which the paper arrives at its views regarding the UNGPs. Their growing uptake and the many follow-on activities by all stakeholder groups speak for themselves...But I do want to correct certain foundational claims because I would not want my silence to be interpreted as implied evidence of their accuracy....

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