1. Human Rights Due Diligence through Stakeholder Engagement?
- Author:
- Brigitte Hamm and Anne Schax
- Publication Date:
- 01-2015
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Development and Peace
- Abstract:
- The report examines to what extent stakeholder engagement as a form of private governance can contribute to a corporation’s human rights due diligence performance. It takes as the basis for investigation a case study of a stakeholder engagement program implemented by the oper- ating company SMI for a planned copper-gold mine in the Philippines during the project’s pre- operational phase. The analysis examines criteria for good stakeholder engagement set out by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and uses the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as the conceptual framework. For the case investigated here, it is established that SMI’s stakeholder engagement program as well as the IFC’s guidelines evince several shortcomings from a human rights perspective, which in turn negatively affect other due dili- gence processes.
- Topic:
- Human Rights, United Nations, Governance, and Humanitarian Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Philippines, Asia-Pacific, and Global Focus