{"id":51938,"date":"2009-11-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporatejustice.org\/Conference-on-Bussiness-and-Human,492.html"},"modified":"2009-11-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:00:00","slug":"the-eu-takes-a-signficant-step-forward-by-committing-to-articulate-the-%e2%80%9cprotect-respect-and-remedy%e2%80%9d-framework-at-the-eu-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/51938","title":{"rendered":"The EU takes a signficant step forward by committing to articulate the \u201cProtect, Respect and Remedy\u201d framework at the EU level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cThe European Union and its Member States should take a global lead and serve as a good example on CSR when building markets, combating corruption, safeguarding the environment and ensuring human dignity and human rights in the workplace\u201d. This is the opening statement of the joint declaration the Swedish EU presidency and the Spanish upcoming one have made public today (November 11th) in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

\n
JPG - 77.8 kb<\/dt>\n
Professor John Ruggie, Ewa Bj\u00f6rling, Swedish Minister for Trade and Juan Jos\u00e9 Barrera Director General Labour Ministry, Spain<\/strong><\/dt>\n
Photo: Katarina Tracz\/UD<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

The declaration comes a result of a 2 day conference organised by the EU Swedish presidency and the European Commission with the objective to move forward on the operationalisation of the \u201cProtect, Respect and Remedy\u201d UN framework on the issue of Business and Human Rights at the EU level.<\/p>\n

The declaration can be found here<\/a> and also attached below.<\/p>\n

Participants in the conference have discussed at length the implications of the \u201cProtect, Respect and Remedy\u201d framework in the EU context.<\/p>\n

The European Coalition for Corporate Justice has welcomed the Swedish initiative and has actively participated in the conference by speaking in the panel dedicated to \u201cThe state as a regulator\u201d.<\/p>\n

Find ECCJ’s intervention below.<\/p>\n

More information about the conference, the opening speeches by keynote speakers such as John Ruggie<\/a>, Mary Robinson<\/a> or the Swedish Trade minister Ewa Bj\u00f6rling can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe European Union and its Member States should take a global lead and serve as a good example on CSR when building markets, combating corruption, safeguarding the environment and ensuring human dignity and human rights in the workplace\u201d. This is the opening statement of the joint declaration the Swedish EU presidency and the Spanish upcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}