Keyword: social responsibility

Is South African Business Ready to Embrace Human Rights?

Picture: Corbis Fazila Farouk - In June this year, the United Nations (UN) extended, Special Representative on Human Rights and Business, John Ruggie’s mandate to continue finding solutions to bridge the gap between business and human rights.  Ruggie’s work is largely aimed at addressing the perils of globalisation given the increasing mobility of big companies marching across the planet in search of the best labour deals in the most pliable working environments The corruptive power of the mighty...