Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Related Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights

E/DEC/2004/279View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2005.

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2 versions · 2004–2005

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2005	E/DEC/2004/279	Responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights	248	—
2004	E/CN.4/DEC/2004/116	Responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights	—	–

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4 subjects

Business Enterprises Corporate Social Responsibility Human Rights Transnational Corporations

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At its 49th plenary meeting, on 22 July 2004, the Economic and Social Council took note of Commission on Human Rights decision 2004/116 of 20 April 200419 and:

(a) Confirmed the importance and priority it accords to the question of the responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights;

(b) Requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to compile a report setting out the scope and legal status of existing initiatives and standards relating to the responsibility of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights, inter alia, the draft norms adopted by the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights59 and, identifying outstanding issues, to consult with all relevant stakeholders in compiling the report,

including States,

transnational corporations, employers’ and employees’ associations, relevant international organizations and agencies, treaty monitoring bodies and non-governmental organizations, and to submit the report to the Commission at its sixty-first session in order for it to identify options for strengthening standards on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights and possible means of implementation;

(c) Affirmed that the document of the Subcommission containing the draft norms59 had not been requested by the Commission and, as a draft proposal, had no legal standing, and that the Subcommission should not perform any monitoring function in that regard.

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