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Why we need to tread carefully in drawing up human rights rules for business

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imageFarm workers tend to a tobacco crop in Zimbabwe in 2014. The push to establish a business and human rights treaty is fraught with problems.Reuter/Philimon Bulawayo

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Devising the rules for holding businesses responsible for...

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In free speech debates, consider Christianity's history of liberalism

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imageA protester outside the US Supreme Court of Appeal objects to gay marriage. An incident at a Cape Town university has raised issues of religious freedom.REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

There has been a flurry of condemnation in South Africa after the acting president of the University of Cape Town’s Student Representative Council declared her concern...

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