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This work…assess[es] the vision and arguments that Mr. Ruggie advances in his new paper in pursuit of a framework that civil societies across the world can implement and observe in their respective communities to regulate the impact of business on their human rights…Ruggie’s vision in the current report continues to be in open conflict with the basic concept of democracy and of true long-term sustainability, for he continues to uphold the market as the principle that reigns supreme over the lives of societies across the world; never mind the customary and systemic violation of a wide range of human rights that the market exerts over billions of people every second of our tim