Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dk4vv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T05:21:28.357Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

United States Endorses Ruggie Principles on Responsibility of Businesses and Transnational Corporations to Respect Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 105 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 792 - 793
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 UN Human Rights Council, Resolution on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, UN Doc. A/HRC/RES/17/4 (June 16, 2001), at http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/human_rights/A.HRC.17.RES.17.4.

2 Ruggie’s report to the Human Rights Council containing the text of the principles is available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.31_en.pdf.

3 See Knox, John H., The Human Rights Council Endorses “Guiding Principles”for Corporations, ASIL Insights (Aug. 1, 2011)Google Scholar.

4 U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva Press Release, Businesses and Transnational Corporations Have a Responsibility to Respect Human Rights (June 16, 2011), at http://geneva.usmission.gov/2011/06/16/human rightsandtransnationalcorps/.