Submission of OECD Watch on the OECDs 2.1 Draft General Due Diligence for Responsible Business Conduct and its draft Companion to the Due Diligence Guidance. The submission was provided to the OECD in February 2017 as part of its public consultation process over the draft documents and gives substantive comments and recommendations for additional improvements that are required should the document become an authoritative source of guidance for companies to identify, prevent, mitigate and remediate adverse impacts through Responsible Business Conduct due diligence.
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