CIVICUS: IFC Review Process must align with the UN Framework on Business and Human Right

CIVICUS has had the opportunity to study the draft sustainability framework and in particular the draft Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability put together by the IFC. Although there are some improvements in the current draft over the existing 2006 policy, we are deeply concerned that the draft falls far short of the standards recommended by Professor John Ruggie, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on the issue of human rights and transnational and other business enterprises (UN Framework on Business and Human Rights)

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