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UN Guiding Principles: NGO comments
RAID and 7 other NGOs
January 13, 2011
Comments and recommendations on UN Special Representative's draft Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
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SRSG report: NGO comments
107 NGOs, SRIs and individuals
May 18, 2006
Letter to UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, with comments on his interim report and recommendations for strengthening human rights standards for business
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PR: summary critique of GPs and VPSHR released
Time to rethink company grievance mechanisms
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principles-justice-summary
Summary and Recommendations from Principles without justice – the corporate takeover of human rights. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, have allowed companies to privatise and control the implementation of human rights.
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pr_voluntary_principles_ungps
RAID
In April 2016 the Government of Canada takes over as chair of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). NGOs are calling on the Canadian government to seize the opportunity to correct practices that undermine the prospects of impoverished communities overseas to seek remedy for corporate abuse. RAID and MiningWatch Canada warn that the UN Guiding Principles and the VPs allow companies to privatise and control the implementation of human rights, and that this is most apparent in the implementation of “operational level” grievance mechanisms. RAID’s new report Principles without justice: the corporate takeover of human rights (here) released in advance of 2016 plenary meeting of the Voluntary Principles Iniativie in Colombia examines the deficiencies with the VPs and Guiding Principles and further details recommendations for reform
pr_voluntary_principles_ungps.pdf