Human Rights - Putting the Social into Sustainability

Authored by Gareth Llewellyn, Board Mentor, Criticaleye
Authored by Luke Wilde, CEO, twentyfifty

The focus of most corporate sustainability initiatives has been on the environmental impacts of businesses, but 2011 witnessed significant developments around the social elements of sustainability, particularly through the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights and Business.

In this Q&A article, Luke Wilde, CEO of business consultancy TwentyFifty, and Gareth Llewellyn, Executive Director of Safety and Sustainable Development at Network Rail, explain why there is now international consensus that business should respect human rights. They also explore how leading companies are putting the principles into practice to manage risk and realise business opportunities.

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