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Daily Brief ESG: The Resolution of Human Rights Issues Should Not Be a Means to a Purpose and more

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  • The Resolution of Human Rights Issues Should Not Be a Means to a Purpose

The Resolution of Human Rights Issues Should Not Be a Means to a Purpose

By Aki Matsumoto

  • If discussion doesn’t proceed from the starting point that respect for rights should be for the coexistence of humankind, not for the maintenance of corporate activities, it will get confused.
  • Although human rights were included in the 2021 revision of the Corporate Governance Code in the Principles of Sustainability, it is not thought to have been effective.
  • The repeated human rights violation scandals at companies and the fact that these companies have human rights policies in place infers that this is a deeply rooted problem in society.

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