Corporate Accountability Advocates Call on UN Special Representative to Advance Human Rights Standards for Transnational Corporations

BOSTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A statement from Kathryn Mulvey, Executive
Director Corporate Accountability International:

"Corporate Accountability International and our members are hopeful that the appointment of Professor John Ruggie as the United Nations' first Special Representative on human rights and transnational corporations will move the global community beyond the voluntary initiatives of the Global Compact toward enforceable global standards to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses.

"The role of Special Representative on issues of human rights and TNCs carries enormous responsibility. Corporate Accountability International has
campaigned for nearly three decades to protect people from dangerous corporate actions, including Nestle's irresponsible infant formula marketing and Philip Morris/Altria's interference in public health policies. The United Nations' World Health Organization has since passed codes for infant formula marketing and the groundbreaking global tobacco treaty -- formally known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) -- to defend people from these corporate abuses. The United Nations' creation of a Special Representative on human rights and transnational corporations is an important step for them corporate accountability movement, acknowledging the need for more comprehensive international control of corporate abuses."


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