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42
CESCR, general comment 14, paras. 12 (1) and 43 (4).
43
CESCR, general comment 14, paras. 34-37.
44
For example, see the Special Rapporteur’s reports on the World Trade Organization
(E/CN.4/2004/49/Add.1, from para. 66), and Peru (E/CN.4/2005/51/Add.3, from para. 47).
45
WHO Medicines Strategy, 2004-2007, chapter 4.
46
Global Corruption Report, Transparency International, 2006.
47
Hogerzeil, H., “Essential medicines and human rights”, WHO Bulletin, 2006.
48
The World Medicines Situation, WHO, 2004.
49
Increasing people’s access to essential medicines in developing countries, DFID, 2005.
50
Some of this information has been provided while on mission and confirmed in, for example,
Interim Report of Task Force 5 Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines, Millennium
Project, 2004, and Cullet, P., “Patents and medicines: the relationship between TRIPS and the
human right to health”, International Affairs, 2003.
51
On the latter, see Moran, M. and others, “The new landscape of neglected disease drug
development”, The Welcome Trust, 2005.
52
The right to health: a duty for whom?: International symposium report, Novartis Foundation for
Sustainable Development, 2004.
53
See “A guide for integrating human rights into business management” available at
http://www.blihr.org/.
54
E.g. Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights, CIPIH, 2006; Increasing
people’s access to essential medicines in developing countries, DFID, 2005; Leisinger, K., “On
Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights”, 2006; Branding the Cure, Consumers
International, 2006.
55
The draft is available at http://www2.essex.ac.uk/human_rights_centre/rth/rapporteur.shtm and
comments may be sent to rthu@essex.ac.uk.
56
Robinson, M., “The business case for human rights” in Visions of Ethical Business, Financial
Times Management (London, Financial Times Professional, 1998); de Mello, S.V., “Human
rights: what role for business?” 2(1) New Academy Review (2003).
57
For more information on Global Compact, see http://www.unglobalcompact.org/.
58
The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, 2000.
59
Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with
regard to human rights (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2) (2003).
60
AIDS Access Foundation and others v. Bristol-Myers Squibb and others, 2002 (10) BC Tor Por
34/2544.
61
“Novartis Corporate Citizenship Guideline 4 (Human Rights)”, available at
www.novartisfoundation.com.
62
A view consistent with the interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General
on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations, see, for example, E/CN.4/2006/97,
para. 61, last sentence. Generally, see Clapham, A., Human Rights Obligations of Non-State
Actors, 2006.
63
CESCR, general comment 14.
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