2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Putting the Blame on Governments: Why Firms and Governments Have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Authors : Susan Ariel Aaronson, Ian Higham
Published in: Human Rights Protection in Global Politics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Some 67 years after the Holocaust, Guillaume Pepy, the chairman of Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français (SNCF), the French national railway company, apologized for transporting 76,000 people to Nazi death camps during World War II. Pepy acknowledged that his firm’s failure to respect human rights in the past was creating business risks in the present, and he feared that US state legislators would block the company from competing for high-speed rail contracts (de la Baume 2011).