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The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

By Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance

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Editor's Note: John Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, and an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is currently serving as the United Nations Secretary-General?s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. This post relates to an interim report by the Special Representative, which is available here.

Late last month, the latest report under my mandate as Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on business and human rights was released in advance of the June session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (Council). This is my last interim report before I submit my final recommendations next year. In this posting I share the report?s discussion on the corporate responsibility to respect, the second pillar in a policy framework I proposed, and which the Council unanimously welcomed, for better managing business and human rights challenges. In particular, I focus on the links between human rights due diligence - a key process for companies to know and show that they respect human rights - and legal compliance, including with corporate governance and securities laws.

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Full post as published by The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog on May 15, 2010 (boomark / email).