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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.