"Submission for U.S. National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct regarding Project-Level Grievance Mechanisms", 24 Apr 2015

We write to offer this joint submission for the U.S. National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct...and assist the U.S. government in its efforts to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights...and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises...As organizations that help communities harmed by business-related human rights abuses to bring complaints through non-judicial grievance mechanisms, we stress that the Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines articulate the critical role of these mechanisms in ensuring accountability for such abuses.