Businesses should make sure they are not complicit in human rights abuses...Complicity in human rights abuses occurs where a corporation knowingly provides practical assistance, encouragement or moral support that has a substantial effect on the perpetration of the abuse…Complicity is generally made up of 2 elements: 1. An act or omission (failure to act) by a company, or individual representing a company, that “helps” (facilitates, legitimizes, assists, encourages, etc.) another, in some way, to carry out a human rights abuse, and 2. The knowledge by the company that its act or omission could provide such help…