Caroline

@ameyatripathi Yes - I walked past this statue for years when I worked at the FCO and could never fathom how it was still standing there in this (or rather, that!) day and age. May it be gone!

Shift's Chair, John Ruggie, speaks at launch of UK's action plan on UN Guiding Principles today. Read the strategy: bit.ly/1cFYyIr

From social audit to innovation: read our report on emerging social compliance approaches in global supply chains. bit.ly/19fDSFY

Shift launches report for companies on conducting meaningful stakeholder consultation in #Myanmar (#Burma) bit.ly/10qv3BD

Shift and Mazars issue discussion paper on auditing alignment with UN #GuidingPrinciples on Business and #HumanRights bit.ly/YmWtOw

EC project for business and human rights guidance to focus on ICT, oil and gas and recruitment/employment agencies tinyurl.com/EC021

#WLF2011 Conference: Managing Corporate Conflicts, from threat to opportunity for sustainable business. Programme @ goo.gl/G80dg

#WLF2011 Conference Speaker: @CarolineRees #Governance & #Accountability Program, #CSRI, #Harvard. Programme @ goo.gl/G80dg

New report on project to pilot company-level mechanisms that can effectively address worker/community grievances: tinyurl.com/csri0622

New short film tells story of a company-community dispute resolution in Philippines through participant voices - see: baseswiki.org/en/Main_Page

UN Human Rights Council adopts resolution endorsing Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (tinyurl.com/unhrc0616) by consensus!

Seminal report issued on company supply chain impacts from Oxfam, Coca-Cola & SABMiller: http://tinyurl.com/oxf0331

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are public - UN will consider them formally in June. Link here:http://tinyurl.com/srsg0321

UN Special Rep on Business and Human Rights releases draft Guiding Principles. Comments welcome! http://tinyurl.com/srsggp

Interview with John Ruggie on business and human rights in International Bar Association newsletter: http://bit.ly/98sptD #CSR

Significant report on extraterritorial jurisdiction and its potential read-across to business and human rights: http://tinyurl.com/CSRIWP59

News update on BASESwiki: 2010 report of UN Special Rep on business and human rights is published: http://baseswiki.org/en/Main_Page

Interview with John Ruggie, UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights: http://tinyurl.com/yba7vfc

New Oxfam Hong Kong report on CSR practices of Hang Seng Index companies: www.oxfam.org.hk/fs/csr/HSI2009_en.pdf

Important report on challenges and possibilities of tracing conflict metal supply chains: http://eicc-gesi.resolv.wikispaces.net/Home+Page