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ABOUT UNITED NATIONS HRC
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights aim to implement the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework. Also known as the “Ruggie Principles” they were adopted in 2011 and have become the primary benchmark for the responsibility of the private sector to respect human rights.
"...About 79% of the world's poor live in rural areas. The poverty rate in rural areas is 17.2%, more than three times higher than in urban areas (5.3%). Almost half (46%) of the extremely poor are children under 14 years old..."
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