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Nigeria yet to launch plan to implement UNGPs business and human rights framework Nigeria yet to launch plan to implement UNGPs business and human rights framework Share Despite being one of the 12 countries that promoted the United Nations Guiding Principles UNGPs, on Business and Human Rights in 2011, Nigeria is yet to launch its own National Action Plan to implement the provisions of the framework. Auwal Ibrahim Musa, Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center, CISLAC, disclosed this in Port Harcourt during a one-day policy colloquium on Human Rights and Business in the Extractive Industries: Shrinking and Shifting Civic Space. He explained that under the Protect, Respect and Remedy framework of the UNGPs, states have a duty to protect human rights, businesses are expected to respect the “entire spectrum of internationally recognized human rights” wherever they operate, to avoid infringing on the human rights of others adding that affected people need

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