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John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and author of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The UNGPs came as a result of several decades of UN efforts to create global human rights standards for businesses.
The mandate was set to expire in June 2008, but Ruggie was granted a three-year extension. That extension culminated in a set of Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (the UNGPs) that sets out expectations for companies and governments for what it means to respect human rights in a business setting. Part of the business responsibility ...
John Gerard Ruggie (18 October 1944 – 16 September 2021) was the Berthold Beitz Research Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and an affiliated professor in international legal studies at Harvard Law School.
John Noel Reedman, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Palestine (c. 1948) [14] [15] John Ruggie, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (2005–2011)
The term 'due diligence' was originally put forward in this context by UN Special Representative for Human Rights and Business John Ruggie, who used it as an umbrella to cover the steps and processes by which a company understands, monitors and mitigates its human rights impacts. Human Rights Impact Assessment is a component of this.
John Ruggie (Austria), 2005–2011 (SRSG) Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change 2021 (HRC res. 48/14) Elisa Morgera (Italy), appointed at HRC55 (March 2024) HRC67 (March 2028) Ian Fry (Tuvalu), appointed at HRC49 (2022–2023)
The term was first used by the American political scientist John Ruggie in 1982. [1] Mainstream scholars generally describe embedded liberalism as involving a compromise between two desirable but partially conflicting objectives. The first objective was to revive free trade.
The ICC Working Group on Business and Human Rights is a thematic Working Group of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC).