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Guardian UK September 1, 2003:
"Nike factories and Coca-Cola bottling plants could be forced to open their doors for 'periodic monitoring' by UN inspectors, under new proposals released last month.
The recommendations by a UN human rights panel will require businesses to demonstrate how they are living up to a range of existing human rights, labour, environmental, consumer protection and anti-corruption laws.
On the face of it, it is difficult to see how the corporate sector could object to the UN's request not to engage in human rights violations, such as torture or slave labour.
But object they have. Thomas Niles, president of the US Council for International Business, has been one of the most vociferous opponents of UN norms on the responsibilities of multinationals in recent weeks. His principal objection is that the norms are 'totally duplicate and unnecessary'."