Margarida Couto (Partner) signs the last edition of the newsletter "Sustainability Guidelines - Legislation and international standards", result of a joint initiative of BCSD Portugal, PwC and VdA, in which she writes an article dedicated to the topic "Businesses and Human Rights".

"Human rights are legal guarantees for the effective realisation of human dignity - inherent to all human beings, regardless of any condition. After having been established to predominantly limit abusive behaviour by States, globalisation and the exponential impact of business operations on society have led to the fact that, today, these legal guarantees can and should be guidelines for responsible and sustainable corporate activity."

Read the article here.