CIVICUS, World Alliance of Citizen Participation, urged the international community to act seriously on human rights abuses by certain trans-national corporations. This was contained in the final report by Professor John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative…, submitted to the UN Human Rights Council...According to CIVICUS Policy Manager, Mandeep Tiwana, Professor Ruggies’ Report “fails to articulate the duty of states to regulate the overseas activities of businesses domiciled within their own jurisdiction, in accordance with the position taken by the UN Committee on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights.”...The statement said they considered the report to be a first step toward strengthening the relationship between business practices and universal human rights, but it could be much more and needed to be much more than a compilation of ideals for selective information and application by states.