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Submission on the Draft Guiding Principles

Monday Jan 24, 2011

Faris Natour, Former Managing Director, Advisory Services, BSR

BSR submitted commentary on the draft "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nations 'Protect, Respect, and Remedy' Framework" proposed by Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative to the UN Secretary General for Human Rights and Business.

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A Human Rights Review of the Facebook Oversight Board

Dunstan Allison-Hope, Managing Director, BSR; Michaela Lee, Manager, BSR; Joanna Lovatt, Associate, BSR

Today, BSR is releasing a human rights review to inform the governance and operations of the Facebook Oversight Board so that it is consistent with human rights-based approaches, principles, standards, and methodologies.

If Corruption Is a Cancer, How Do We Cure It? Lessons for International Anti-Corruption Day

Cecilia Müller Torbrand, Director, BSR

The link between the quality of government institutions that implement policies controlling corruption and economic development is clear. However, in many parts of the world, corruption is still one of the biggest obstacles to social and economic development. In the long-term perspective, being a clean company makes it easier to do business.

Can Corruption in Your Value Chain Lead to Complicity in Gross Human Rights Abuses?

Joanna Lovatt, Associate, BSR; Alison Taylor, Former Managing Director, Sustainability Management, BSR; Jenny Vaughan, Human Rights Director, BSR; Céline da Graça Pires, Associate, BSR

If businesses fail to conduct conflict-sensitive human rights due diligence and integrate their anti-corruption and human rights efforts, they may be linked to human rights abuses conducted by a third party. BSR recommends enhanced human rights due diligence that is both conflict-sensitive and that integrates corruption risk.

Google’s Human Rights by Design

Dunstan Allison-Hope, Managing Director, BSR; Hannah Darnton, Manager, BSR; Michaela Lee, Manager, BSR

Google commissioned BSR to conduct a human rights assessment of its new celebrity recognition application program interface (API) while it was in development to identify, prevent, and mitigate potential human rights impacts.

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