STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK ON A NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON BUSINESS AND
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MALAYSIA
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The Guardian. (19 Feb 2014). Kellog’s to buy only sustainably sourced palm oil. Accessed at http://www.theguardian.
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See e.g. European Union. (2010). Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the
market. Retrieved from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32010R0995. (This EU Timber
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system/uploads/attachment_data/file/373539/Transparency_in_supply_chains.pdf. (The U.K. 2014 Modern
Slavery Bill contains a specific transparency in supply chains clause requiring “businesses above a certain size
threshold to disclose each year what they have done to ensure that there is no modern slavery in their supply
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in the Political Economy of States: Avenues for Application. p. 30. Retrieved from http://www.ihrb.org/pdf/2014-0318_State-of-Play_HR-Political-Economy-States.pdf (noting that California’s Transparency in Supply Chains Act 2010
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See Foreign & Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom. (2015). Corporate Report – Colombia. Accessed at https://
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State Public Policy Chapter on Business and Human Rights had been drafted, with support of the U.K. government
and cooperation from the Colombian government, as an effort toward developing an NAP to implement the Guiding
Principles). See Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs, United Republic of Tanzania. National Human Rights
Action Plan 2013-2017. Section 2.4.2 (on Human Rights and Business). Retrieved from http://www.chragg.go.tz/
docs/nhrap/NHRAP_Final_December_2013.pdf.
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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. (2015). Myanmar & other govts. commit to develop National Action
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The five countries are the United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland and Lithuania. See United Kingdom.
(2013). Good Business – Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Retrieved from
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Principles on Business and Human Rights. Retrieved from http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/
NationalPlans/Denmark_NationalPlanBHR.pdf. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands. (2014). National Action Plan
on Business and Human Rights. Retrieved from http://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/
netherlands-national-action-plan.pdf. Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland. (2014). National Action
Plan for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Retrieved from http://
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the Implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Retrieved from http://
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