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Business and Human Rights

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2008 is an important year for the development of business and human rights given the following: The work of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights; the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration; the Beijing Olympics, the culmination of the work of the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights (BLIHR), the establishment of an international Insitute on Business and Human Rights and so on.... I hope we can use this discussion group to share ideas, perspectives and information about this fast moving field.

Best wishes

John Morrison

 

Discussion on the mandate of UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights as well as the work of NGOs, IGOs, Businesses and Governments

notebook: The Power of Place: How historic sites can engage citizens in human rights issues

In this notebook we learn about how museums are innovating ways to keep history alive so that the public can remember and talk about what happened in the past.  The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums transforms places of passive learning into places of active citizenship and engagement.

notebook: Recipe for Dialogue

This notebook describes how two US nongovernmental organizations developed training to increase the capacity of companies to build more effective relationships with indigenous peoples.  First Peoples Worldwide and Business for Social Responsibility sought to bring the rights of indigenous peoples to the forefront and encourage businesses to do the same.

notebook: Leveraging the Money

In this notebook Ulrich Mueller describes a strategy of the FoodFirst Information and Action Network to influence large mining operations that were causing various human rights abuses, by putting pressure on banks and other financial institutions that invest in those mines.

notebook: Human Rights and the Corporation

In this notebook Reed Addis describes the development of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment by the Danish Institute for Human Rights. The Compliance Assessment, based somewhat on the model of an Environmental Impact Assessment, was developed through a long process of consultation with businesses from many different industrial sectors, and provides a framework through which businesses can assess their human rights obligations and measure the liabilities and human rights risks in countries where they operate or plan to locate.

notebook: Engaging Key Stakeholders

In this notebook, we learn about how the development agency CARE-Bangladesh involved key stakeholders, particularly a transport workers’ union, in the task of HIV/AIDS prevention in Bangladesh. This story provides important insights into engaging key stakeholders in advocacy work that is socially acceptable and relevant to the lives and experience of target communities.

notebook: Engaging the Media: Building support for minimum wage reform

The Korean Women Workers Associations United (KWWAU) and its partners effectively engaged media to raise public awareness and concern regarding the minimum wage system, thereby assisting in the creation of a social movement that has succeeded in changing the minimum wage law to afford greater protections for workers, especially for women.

notebook: Educating the Next Generation

In this notebook we learn about an Albanian organization that seized an opportunity to integrate human rights into the public education system.  The Albanian Center for Human Rights worked with the new democratic government in the post- communist transition period and successfully introduced human rights education into the public  curriculum.  This was an effort to prepare Albanians for their transition to democracy.
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