Analysis Of John Ruggie's Principles

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Ruggie’s Principles The United Nations Human Rights Council in 2005 appointed Harvard Professor John Ruggie to study business and human rights and end the debate on the human rights responsibilities of companies. Ruggie’s six-year study builds on his “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, published in 2008, that outlined a state’s duty to protect human rights, and the corporation’s responsibility to respect human rights. This study leads to unanimous endorsement by the United Nations. This endorsement led to the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) on June 16, 2011 (Smith, 2014). Ruggie’s Principles is the informal name because John Ruggie created, and helped with the process of UNGPs implementation. The UNGP’s outlines three pillars of Ruggie’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework:
1. The state’s duty to protect human rights
2. The corporate responsibility to respect human rights
3. Access to remedy
Human rights abuses committed by companies is not new, there have been many over the years – Union Carbide in India; Shell in Nigeria Delta are few among many cases. This policy has been approved
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In reviewing several journal articles, I will attempt to explain how hunger is related to Global Health, human rights, and International Law. Gostin, Sridhar state the legal system concerning global health law is not an organized system, but a series of complex treaties and “soft” and “hard laws developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and various other organizations (Gostin & Sridhar, 2015). The laws that relate to global health are rules that govern “conduct and relations of countries, including the rights and obligations.” Primarily global health realm rest with countries but international organizations are also subject to the same human rights laws and international laws (Gostin & Sridhar,

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