TeliaSonera partners with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) for support and review of its corporate human rights work

TeliaSonera has engaged the Danish Institute for Human Rights to support and review its human rights impact assessment. DIHR will develop a tool tailored to TeliaSonera and its human rights risk profile. It will include freedom of expression and privacy issues and be benchmarked on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. DIHR will also assess TeliaSonera’s consequential mitigation plan.

The work is to be finalized during 2012 and will include: an independent expert review by DIHR of the results achieved and an appraisal of TeliaSonera’s mitigation plan addressing potential negative impacts.

“TeliaSonera is very pleased to be able to work together with DIHR, a global leader on human rights and business issues. We gain from their respected human rights expertise and at the same time get valuable third party input to our human rights impact assessment” says Eija Pitkänen, Head of Corporate Responsibility, and TeliaSonera.

DIHR is a member of a network of 120 national human rights institutions worldwide. It has worked closely with business and human right communities since 1999 to develop tools and standards for instilling better business practice in the context of human rights.

DIHR is one of the leading national human rights institutions in the world playing a directing role in the development and implementation of human rights nationally and internationally (http://www.humanrights.dk/).

For more information, please call the TeliaSonera press office 46-771 77 58 30, press@teliasonera.com or visit our Newsroom.

TeliaSonera provides network access and telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain. TeliaSonera helps people and companies communicate in an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly way. Our ambition is to be number one or two in all our markets, providing the best customer experience, high quality networks and cost efficient operations. TeliaSonera is also the leading European wholesale provider with a wholly-owned international carrier network. In 2011, net sales amounted to SEK 104 billion, EBITDA to SEK 36,9 billion and earnings per share to SEK 4,20. The TeliaSonera share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Read more at www.teliasonera.com.

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