March 5th, 2010
From Juliette Terzieff, Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Initiatives:
Interaction with United Nations Special Representative John Ruggie is an eye-opener. Well, I guess he’d say “a game changer,” but however you want to phrase it, Ruggie’s work to define roles and recommend parameters for his 3 pillar approach to business and human rights is going to change the way corporations and their stakeholders view human rights.
It’s about time.
For the last couple decades environmental and human rights activists groups have increasingly targeted corporate behavior in their campaigns – there have been some noticeable campaign “victories” and positive changes.
But broadly speaking the systemic problems at the root of issues like child labor, freedom of expression remain. Figuring out the role corporations and their stakeholders can play in addressing them remains a time-intensive conundrum.
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December 30th, 2009
From Juliette Terzieff, Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Initiatives:
Welcome to the Future 500 blog.
To start the New Year, we are delighted to launch the official Future 500 blog, where we invite you to join us in ongoing discussions, analysis and observations to advance the practice of stakeholder engagement in progressing systemic solutions to society’s critical sustainability challenges.
In the waning days of 2009 I find myself looking back on a tumultuous year full of critical events that affect all the world’s citizens.
Each of us has a stake in our collective future — a future that in 2009 continued to be endangered by global economic turmoil and international policy failures, increasing frequency of natural disasters, effects of climate change and decreasing availability of finite natural resources – to name just a few of the year’s challenges!
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Tags: amazon, business, china, Climate, egypt, environment, free speech, global stakeholder intitiative, human rights, iran, john ruggie, labor, rights, Stakeholder Engagement, united nations, Water
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