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Following a multistakeholder consultation in which UNI Europa has been involved from the start, the European Commission has published guides on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The guides are specifically targeting employment and recruitment agencies, ICT companies, and oil and gas companies. The guides were developed over the past 18 months byShift (http://www.shiftproject.org/) andIHRB (http://www.ihrb.org/) through extensive research and consultation with representatives from the three industries as well as governments, trade unions, civil society, academia and other experts. Each Guide offers practical advice on how to implement the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in day-to-day business operations in each industry through step-by-step guidance. At each step, they summarise what the UN Guiding Principles expect, offer a range of approaches and examples for how to put them into practice, and link users to additional resources that can support their work. They are intended to help companies “translate” respect for human rights into their own systems and cultures. You can download the guides here http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6711&lang=en&title=European%2DCommission%2Dpublishes%2Dhuman%2Drights%2Dguidance%2Dfor%2D3%2Dbusiness%2Dsectors