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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Tags: 3 pillars, activists, business, coca-cola, hewlett packard, human rights, human rights council, john ruggie, know and show, name and shame, protect, remedy, respect, un
Posted in Business & Human Rights, Labor & Transparency, Stakeholder & Campaign News, Stakeholder Engagement | 1 Comment »
February 19th, 2010
From Juliette Terzieff, Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Initiatives:
[Reprinted with permission from World Politics Review]
Human rights activists are turning up the heat on British company Vedanta Resources over charges that its operations threaten the existence of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. Cast as a “David versus Goliath” fight by the tribe and its supporters, the Vedanta story comes at a time when stakeholders continue to look for a firm definition and application of a community engagement concept known as Free, Prior, Informed Consent (FPIC), to benefit indigenous peoples around the world.
Survival International has appealed to the makers of the blockbuster movie “Avatar” to help the Dongria Kondh fight off mining plans and the pollution resulting from Vedanta’s operations in Orissa state. Vedanta and its subsidiaries already have government approval to expand current aluminum refinery operations and move forward with plans to mine the Niyamgiri Hills for bauxite.
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Tags: amnesty international, avatar, business and human rights, dongria kondh, human rights, india, Indigenous Rights, james cameron, john ruggie, orissa, three pillar framework, un special representative, united nations, vedanta
Posted in Business & Human Rights, Community Engagement, Indigenous Rights, Labor & Transparency, Stakeholder & Campaign News | 3 Comments »
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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