
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://125/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>For those celebrating Human Rights Day today, here's a top ten Business & Human Rights issues of 2013 list. </div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) <<a href="mailto:info@ihrb.org">info@ihrb.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>On Human Rights Day, IHRB has published its Top Ten Business & Human Rights Issues in 2013</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">December 10, 2012 9:19:38 AM PST</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) <<a href="mailto:info@ihrb.org">info@ihrb.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="width: 680px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="height: 1924px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 680px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="preheaderContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; text-align: left; ">On Human Rights Day, IHRB is publishing its fourth annual Top Ten List of Business and Human Rights Issues for the year ahead.</td><td width="20" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></td><td valign="top" width="200" class="preheaderContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; text-align: left; ">Email not displaying correctly?<br><a href="http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=860d912d17951c9d4584cbdfb&id=aa9925b7cb&e=78c718886e" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">View it in your browser</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="templateContainer"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="templateHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="headerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; padding: 40px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; "><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://ihrb.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=860d912d17951c9d4584cbdfb&id=9b0766cc4e&e=78c718886e" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; "><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/860d912d17951c9d4584cbdfb/images/top_ten_issues_2013.1.png" alt="Business and Human Rights 2013" border="0" width="600" height="233" style="border: 0px none; height: 233px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 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