Corporations Must Recognize Human Rights, Too

In June 2011, the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva formally endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.  The three principles are:

1. States have a responsibility to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including corporations;
2. Companies have a responsibility to respect human rights;
3. Victims of human rights abuses must be free to access effective remedies.

It will be interesting to see whether or not the United States, or any of the individual fifty states, will reform its laws to comply with these principles.