"Sunita told me that she works with three or four other women, clearing about 40 tonnes a day of waste stone rubble between them by hand and on their heads."
The UN Secretary General's Special Representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie, has produced his final report on Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights.
"If in five years time, the majority of plantation workers have not noticed the difference that the Forum is making, then we can conclude that a promising initiative has failed."
Work is double-edged: while it provides the main opportunity for people to escape poverty, without respect for workers' rights, it keeps them locked into it.
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