Business leader Anand Panyarachun (formerly Chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries, Prime Minister of Thailand, and Thailand's Ambassador to the United Nations):

"For some time now, companies have been called on to abide by certain environmental standards. Now their human rights standards are also being called into question….In the West, human rights groups, consumers, investors and labour unions, have through various pressure points been successful in promoting human rights in corporate codes of conduct. And companies have been responding to such pressures….Those companies that get bad press about human rights violations have seen consumers boycott their products. In the long run, the bottom line suffers. I would encourage our NGOs [non-governmental organisations] to mount similar campaigns in the interest of protecting human rights in Thailand."

[from Human Rights and Business Ethics, keynote address by Anand Panyarachun to International Symposium on Human Rights and Business Ethics, Bangkok, 24 Oct. 1998]