BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN NIGERIA: ASSESSING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN

The activities of businesses are very core and fundamental to driving a sustainable development in society by offering access to social and economic opportunities and a pathway to development progress.However, the actions of business enterprises can as a matter of fact affect human rights, and those most affected are often among the most vulnerable.The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between human rights and business in Nigeria by assessing the implementation of the UN guiding principles and the national action plan.This paper further examines the essence of entrenching and or observing human right principles in all business environments as well as the challenges and prospects adopting doctrinal method using primary and secondary sources.The paper finds out that, as lofty as the provisions UN guiding principles and national action plan, implementation is the major challenge leaving everything on paper and in fact, ineffective.This paper challenges all and sundry to champion the course of implementation of all the provisions of the UN guiding principles and the nation action plan.The paper recommends that, human rights are inalienable, interdependent, interrelated and indivisible and as such should be entrenched in business enterprises for a sustainable world. Key Words: business environments