CHAPTER 5 OVERVIEW OF THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES: KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Jurisdiction: United States

Human Rights Law and the Extractive Industries
(Feb 2016)
CHAPTER 5
OVERVIEW OF THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Caroline Rees
President
Shift Project
Former lead advisor to Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights
New York, NY

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CAROLINE REES is President of Shift Project, a leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in New York City. Caroline worked as a lead advisor to the former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie, from 2007 to 2011 and as the Director of the Governance and Accountability Program at the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School from 2009 to 2011. Caroline advised the SRSG's mandate across a broad range of issues, and led research related to access to remedy as well as work on human rights in supply chains. She was closely involved in the drafting of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Caroline has worked with a broad range of companies, governments civil society organizations, and international organizations on issues ranging...