Earlier, the UN Human Rights Council's unanimous adoption of guiding principles to implement the protect-respect-remedy framework on business and human rights (pdf) is another step in the right direction.
The UNGPs, developed by U.N. special representative John Ruggie, were unanimously endorsed by the Human Rights Council and consist of 31 voluntary guidelines to implement the "Protect, Respect and Remedy" framework, which seeks to prevent, address and remedy human rights violations committed in business operations.
Our investment in time, talent and treasure should be on things we actually can control, chiefly implementing the appropriate policies that protect public health.
The European Commission recently proposed implementing the international Nagoya Protocol that protects the rights of countries and local communities that allow their genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge to be used.
But early bookers, who had reserved tours and plunked down deposits before the charge was implemented, were protected from the fee.
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was not exaggerating when he said in September last year, 'Our debates are about how, not whether to implement the Responsibility to Protect.
Since government not just touches but controls far more of society, it threatens to marginalize religion by creating what Richard John Neuhaus called the "naked public square". A new approach is necessary to implement the Founders' vision, protect the spiritual liberty of all, and encourage political peace.
They were motivated to implement policies that protected the economic interests of the masses for their own political survival.
Patrick Dolan, the senior vice president of the Cablevision Systems Corporation in charge of its News 12 Networks, said the policy was implemented to protect the station's credibility as an impartial news provider in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
It is therefore crucial to implement new protected areas within the central valley, which could serve as corridors to reduce the rate of species extinctions and increase the likelihood of the re-colonization of parks [ 60, 67].
