The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:30:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.9 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/12/02/guiding-principles-on-business-and-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guiding-principles-on-business-and-human-rights https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/12/02/guiding-principles-on-business-and-human-rights/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=14135?d=20160404102425EDT Posted by John Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School, on Thursday, December 2, 2010
Editor's Note:

John Ruggie, the Berthold Beitz Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, is currently serving as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. This post discusses a draft of principles to implement the United Nation’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework; that draft, which is now open to comment, is available here.

On 22 November 2010 I posted a draft of the “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” on my online consultation forum, available here, under my mandate as Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Business and Human rights. The forum, intended to gather views from a broad range of stakeholders, will remain open until 31 January 2011.

The Guiding Principles elaborate and clarify for companies, states, and other stakeholders how they can operationalize the UN ‘Protect , Respect and Remedy’ Framework, by taking practical steps to address business impacts on the human rights of individuals (learn more about the Framework here). The UN Human Rights Council had endorsed the Framework unanimously in 2008, and asked me to provide this additional concrete guidance. My hope is that stakeholders in every region will take advantage of this opportunity to be heard before I finalize the text of the Guiding Principles. The online forum is a critical complement to the more than 40 in-person consultations I’ve conducted around the world since my mandate began in 2005.

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