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Business Briefing: UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Hot off the press from the United Nations are Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Why should businesses pay attention to these Guiding Principles? And what do they mean for businesses? We give some quick answers.

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Articles

Can the poor be winners from globalisation?

TwentyFifty team member Nick Pyatt is leading an initiative in India that aims to do just that by creating a social business structure that will address key barriers.

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CriticalEye - The Right to Water

In this article, we look at the implications for businesses of the UN\'s decision to formalise the Right to Water.

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Decade of business and human rights

Article by Luke Wilde, Director of TwentyFifty Limited published in the May 2009 Tenth Annivesary Edition of Ethical Performance.

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Don't Underestimate Human Rights

Article by Luke Wilde published in Corporate Citizenship Briefing October 2006.

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Report on the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit

A short reflection from Luke Wilde on the summit and status of the Global Compact, July 2007.

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Submission on UN Guiding Principles

This is our submission on the Guiding Principes for the operationalisation of the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework developed by the UN Special Respresentative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie.

We chose to focus our submission on what \'on-going due diligence\' of human rights impacts entails.

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The Effectiveness of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Sector

Report prepared by Luke Wilde and John Morrison based on stakeholder interviews September to December 2006.

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