Comments on Business and Human Rights Reporting and Assurance Frameworks Initiative (“RAFI”)

Faith Delos Reyes

Public Comments as of September 2013

Shift and Mazars, in liaison with the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN, launched a global, consultative initiative to develop public reporting and assurance frameworks based on the UN Guiding Principles.

The project team invited interested parties to provide comments on the project’s discussion paper. Over thirty-five sets of comments were submitted in response, from individuals, organizations, and associations that collectively represent many thousands of members. These comments, unless requested by the author to be kept confidential, can be accessed through the links below.

  1. Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) – Sue Almond, Technical Director
  2. Accountability Counsel – Natalie Bridgeman Fields, Executive Director
  3. Alan Fine
  4. Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Indonesia – Librian Angraeni (Inggi), Sustainability & Stakeholder Engagement
  5. ASEAN Services Employees Trade Union Council (ASETUC) – Mohamad Shafie BP Mammal, ASETUC Secretary General
  6. BDA Die Arbeitgeber
  7. CICS, part of The Ceram Group – Shaun Bainbridge, Director
  8. Centere for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS), Nepal – Shankar Lamichhane, President
  9. Claire White
  10. CSR+D (European Network for Corporate Social Responsibility and Disability) – CSR+D Network Secretariat
  11. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited – Agathe Derain, Manager, Responsabilité Sociale et Environnementale, Deloitte Conseil
  12. DNV Business Assurance – Anna Turrell
, Senior Consultant
  13.  Hermes Equity Ownership Services Limited
  14. International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) – Elin Wrzoncki, Globalization and Human Rights Desk Director, Responsable Bureau Mondialisation et droits de l’Homme
  15. International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) – Amol Mehra, Director
  16. Indonesian Center for Environmental Law – Margaretha Quina, Researcher
  17. Indah Amaritasari
  18. Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
  19. International Organisation of Employers (IOE) – Matthias Thorns, Senior Adviser
  20. IPIECA – Roper Cleland, Social Responsibility Project Manager
  21. International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) – Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary
  22. Professor Adrian Henriques – Professor of Accountability and CSR, Middlesex University Business School
  23. National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) – Jesus Exequiel I. Nidea, President, PSBank Employees Union, and Exec. Vice President, National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) affiliated with UNI Global Union
  24. Nicholas Rowe
  25. RAISE Health Initiative for Workers, Companies and Communities – David Wofford, Manager
  26. TIGERS Success Series – Dianne Crampton, Founder
  27. TRaC Global – Mark H Heaven, Chief Executive Officer
  28. UNI Global Union Asia Pacific Regional Organization (UNI Apro) – Christopher Ng, Regional Secretary