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| UN Framework and Guiding Principles Business and Human Rights Component1 #408654 For some years, business leaders, civil society and governments have been exploring the issue of human rights and business. Multinational, national and local businesses, including finance sector organisations, are not direct subjects of the international human rights treaties, which assign duties to governments. | The UN Framework and Guiding Principles on Business and Human RightsFor some years, business leaders, civil society and governments have been exploring the issue of human rights and business. Multinational, national and local businesses, including finance sector organisations, are not direct subjects of the international human rights treaties, which assign duties to governments. However, a consensus was emerging that within their 'sphere of influence' businesses have a role to play in relation to human rights laws and principles. In 2005, Professor John Ruggie was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative on the issue of 'human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises'. His mandate included identifying and clarifying standards of responsibility and accountability for businesses with regard to human rights. In 2008, Ruggie put forward a Framework on Business and Human Rights. This rests on three pillars: - the state duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business
- the corporate responsibility to respect human rights
- greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial
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+Citations (2) - CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[2] Human Rights Translated A business reference guide
Author: Castan Centre for Human Rights Law - On behalf of the Castan Centre, Sarah Joseph and
Rachel Chambers were the major authors. Additional
research was conducted by Sven Edquist, Sarah
Schnider, Erica Contini, Natalie Bugalski and Katie
Mitchell.
On behalf of the International Business Leaders
Forum, Lucy Amis was the major author. Additional
contributions from Désirée Abrahams, Peter Brew,
Caroline Ersmarker, Katy Cooper, Steve Kenzie,
Caroline Leonard, Joe Phelan and Sandra Prida.
On behalf of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Lene Wendland was
the main contributor. Additional input was received from
Laure-Anne Courdesse, Julian Burger, Wan-Hea Lee,
Patrice Gillibert and Noemy Barrita-Chagoya.
On behalf of the UN Global Compact Office, Ursula
Wynhoven and Sunok Lee were the main contributors.
We would also like to acknowledge the financial
contribution of the Foundation for the Global Compact
for the publication design costs.
Publication date: 2008
Publication info: Faculty of Law, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Melbourne, Australia
Cited by: Lisa Martinez 2:36 AM 6 April 2017 GMT
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