The United Nations took an important step toward setting human rights standards for corporations this August by combining existing laws on corporate conduct into a single document. The U.N. Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights has drafted a set of standards that would require businesses to demonstrate how they are living up to a range of human rights, labor, environmental, consumer protection and anti-corruption laws.
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