During the past four years, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights has been involved in a drafting exercise to put into one document a comprehensive restatement of international law on human rights affecting business enterprises. The subcommission sought input from the business community, labour and non-governmental organisations and many other international bodies such as the International Labour Organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN Environmental Programme and the World Health Organisation.
On 13 August, 2003, this effort resulted in the subcommission unanimously adopting the Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights.
