“The European Union and its Member States should take a global lead and serve as a good example on CSR when building markets, combating corruption, safeguarding the environment and ensuring human dignity and human rights in the workplace”. These are the opening lines of the 11 November joint declaration of the current and upcoming EU presidencies, Sweden and Spain.
“The European Union and its Member States should take a global lead and serve as a good example on CSR when building markets, combating corruption, safeguarding the environment and ensuring human dignity and human rights in the workplace”. These are the opening lines of the 11 November joint declaration of the current and upcoming EU presidencies, Sweden and Spain.
The declaration marks the closure the November 10-11 conference organised in Stockholm by the EU Swedish presidency and the European Commission. The objective of the conference was to move forward on the operationalisation of the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” UN framework on the issue of Business and Human Rights at the EU level.
Participants in the conference have discussed at length the implications of the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework in the EU context.
The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) has welcomed the Swedish initiative and has actively participated in the conference. In its intervention about the state as a regulator, the ECCJ makes a strong case in favour of the State duty to protect by arguing that both other two pillars of the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework can only be successfully achieved by ensuring
strong government involvement as well. The ECCJ proposals to the EU have as an overarching goal to ease access to justice for victims of corporate abuse in European courts.
Please find more information about the conference, as well as the opening speeches of keynote speakers John Ruggie and Mary Robinson.
