-
Human rights — ‘vision and reality’
20 Dec 2023 17:21 GMT
… Harvard Kennedy School colleague Professor John Ruggie, who spent the better part … normative principles to govern business practices related to human rights.
‘Unfortunately, progress in …
-
Mary Robinson: ‘Business needs to be bold and push for a phase-out of fossil fuels at COP28’
02 Nov 2023 09:47 GMT
… before becoming UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002 … then U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, inviting … John Ruggie, was adopting a very business approach and not a very human rights … is about human rights and business, not business accommodating to …
-
The maximization curse
09 Apr 2024 11:24 GMT
… time is the big present business. Here also maximization works … , selling water is good business, and sewage treatment is … BEPS, John Ruggie struggled a decade for corporate respect of human rights, but … corporations, it is just business”. The truth is that …
-
What the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (Don’t) Say About Content Moderation
01 Nov 2022 02:23 GMT
… Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The … guidelines for business and human rights that aligned … and protect human rights under the human rights treaties that … Human Rights Council created international relations scholar John Ruggie’s …
-
Human Rights Council Discusses Situation of Human Rights in South Sudan, Cambodia and Sudan under its Agenda Item on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
06 Oct 2021 17:32 GMT
… passing of John Ruggie, the former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on human rights and … the essence of human rights norms. Sadly, the Special Rapporteur and human rights advocates were utterly …
-
BRIEFING NOTES - (1) Yemen; (2) Tribute To John Ruggie
21 Sep 2021 19:24 GMT
… John Ruggie’s life and
work.
As the first Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Business … and Human Rights, Ruggie
travelled the …
-
UN Human Rights Standards For Business Reach 10-year Milestone: Time To Gear Up For New Decade Of Action
16 Jun 2021 18:05 GMT
… Human Rights Council’s endorsement of the
UN
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,
the UN …
Working Group on Business and Human Rights … Business Conduct
Allan Jorgensen, and Guiding Principles author John Ruggie
…
-
The significance of UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for Bangladesh
01 Feb 2021 18:00 GMT
… UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights lies.
Responsibility of business operations for addressing human rights … Professor John Ruggie in July 2005 as the special representative on the issue of human rights …
-
Stakeholders Call For Inclusion Of Social, Human Rights In Oil Industry Leadership Newspaper
11 Apr 2019 20:03 GMT
… inclusion of social and human rights protective mechanism’s in … to potential social and human rights impacts of Business operations; Capital projects … “Professor John Ruggie who served as the UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights was mandated …
-
International business and human rights makes significant move forward in logistics sector
28 Nov 2018 01:56 GMT
… on Business and Human Rights.
Speaking at the UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, Tom … Professor John Ruggie, Harvard Kennedy School, and the former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights …