UN Secretary-General's special representative convenes global leaders with wide experience
John Ruggie, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon's Special Representative for business and human rights, today announced that he is convening a leadership group to advise him on how best to ensure that businesses worldwide respect internationally recognized human rights standards.
The panel includes Ban's predecessor as Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, as well as Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland who also served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. They are joined by thirteen other leaders from business, diplomacy, and civil society around the world (listed below).
Ruggie, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who served as Annan's strategic adviser from 1997-2001, has been Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG)for business and human rights since 2005. Earlier this year, after extensive consultations with business, governments and non-profit human rights groups on five continents, he completed the first phase of his mandate by proposing a broad policy framework for business and human rights, based on three core principles: the state's duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; the responsibility of corporations to respect human rights; and the need for victims of corporate-related human rights abuses to have easier access to more effective remedies.
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