The film concerning the use of mediation to resolve generations-old disputes between communities and corporations in Luzon, Philippines, has been completed and released. It is available for free viewing at www.BASESwiki.org.
This post comes from the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, where a team from the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has worked on a film documenting the tensions between operators of two hydroelectric dams and the communities that were inundated, destroyed and displaced during the construction of the dams.
One company ignored the communities and the other engaged them, and the difference is so palpable that you wonder why any company would ever do anything other than engagement. Read more »
Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. His work continues, richer and even more provocative. Read more »
This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association.
An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the interrelationship among Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights. Organized by James E. Brumm, A. Jan Eijsbouts and John F. Sherman, III, one focus of the discussion was the Report of John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, titled “Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights” (the “Ruggie Report”).