{"id":7281,"date":"2013-04-07T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2013-04-08T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:12:56","slug":"ruggie-rules-detail-corporate-behavior-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/04\/07\/ruggie-rules-detail-corporate-behavior-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ruggie Rules&#8221; detail corporate behavior abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/04\/07\/just-business\/2053325\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7282\" title=\"&quot;Ruggie Rules&quot; detail corporate behavior abroad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130408_ruggie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Of all the challenges posed by globalization, regulating abusive corporate practices has long been particularly difficult. From  Asian sweatshops supplying brands like Nike and Apple, to the oil giant  Shell polluting and abetting violence in Nigeria, recent decades have  been rife with tales of multinationals harming communities in which they  operate \u2014 usually in low-income, weakly governed countries. In the absence of international laws that govern corporate conduct,  preventing such practices \u2014 let alone providing recourse for those  victimized \u2014 can often seem impossible. How, in a  world where national sovereignty remains paramount, can globally  operating firms be held accountable for causing cross-border harm? In  2005, Kofi Annan, the then-United Nations secretary general,  called on  John Ruggie, a professor of human rights and international affairs at  Harvard University&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government. Annan appointed  Ruggie to examine this problem and identify a road map forward. Ruggie&#8217;s  process, which culminated in a set of &#8220;Guiding Principles&#8221; on business  and human rights that were endorsed in 2011 by the UN Human Rights  Council, is now the subject of a book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/04\/07\/just-business\/2053325\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: Nike, Shell, Apple\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/04\/07\/just-business\/2053325\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the challenges posed by globalization, regulating abusive corporate practices has long been particularly difficult. From Asian sweatshops supplying brands like Nike and Apple, to the oil giant Shell polluting and abetting violence in Nigeria, recent decades have been rife with tales of multinationals harming communities in which they operate \u2014 usually in low-income,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,65,48],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-nike","tag-shell","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}