Category: Multi-stakeholder Dialogue
Corporate Social Responsibility, a General Overview
Development
The term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) appeared more than 50 years ago in Howard Bowen’s publication: Social Responsibilities of the Businessmen (1953). The term has evolved for years, but there is an overall understanding among scholars that CSR is the result of the moral obligation that companies have within the society in which they operate.… Read More
Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues Matter
Due to time constraints, I could not elaborate more on the facets of multi-stakeholder dialogues in my group presentation. Because of this reason and out of my belief that this is an important approach for managing and mitigating conflicts caused by extraction projects which has been rapidly developed and embraced in recent years, I would like to present my research finding on this subject matter here.… Read More
Assessing responsible mining practices
For centuries, mining has been an important economic activity to many people in the world. And its impacts, economic, environmental or social may leave an irreversible mark on the landscape and on the lives of the people affected by it.… Read More
The territorial and social conflict of the Wayuu community and the Cerrejón mine in La Guajira, Colombia
Colombia’s economy is rising. The country is experiencing a mining boom, particularly of coal. The coal-rich areas are often found in rural areas where indigenous communities live.In 1976 one of the largest open-pit coal mines of the world was built in the department La Guajira, in the Northeast of Colombia after signing a partnership agreement between the state (Carbones de Colombia SA), Carboncol and Intercor (subsidiary of Exxon).… Read More
Flujos financieros ilícitos en los países andinos: una mirada al sector minero
Cepal (Economic Commission for Latin Americ and the Caribbean) launches study that investigates the tax planning of companies and other actors in the mining sector in the Andean countries, providing estimates of illicit capital outflows associated with mining exploitation and of tax resources that are not collected due to this type of practices.… Read More
The civil society agenda on Extractive Industries in Latin America, by NRGI and RLIE, 2017
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in collaboration with the Red Latinoamericana sobre Industrias Extractivas (RLIE) launches reports that propose to the organizations and social leaders of Latin America an agenda of political incidence and applied research in relation to extractive industries, and to the contemporary acontext characterized by the end of the “Fiscal super cycle” and the implementation of “race to the bottom” policies by the governments of the region.… Read More
Social Conflict in the Extractive Sector: Developing Good Security Practices – Impressions of an Event by the UN Business and Human Rights Forum 2017
The Graduate Institute Geneva hosted an event during the 2017 United Nations Business and Human Rights Forum on November 28th under the title „Social Conflict in the Extractive Sector: Developing Good Security Practices“.… Read More
Switzerland and the Paradise Papers: Federal Counsellor Simonetta Sommaruga’s Response
I would like to provide an English summary of an interview with Simonetta Sommaruga, Minister of Justice of the Swiss Federal Council, by the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) published on November 12th 2017.… Read More
CSR in Timor-Leste
History of CSR:
- Many local and foreign firms support community activities, ranging from sponsoring the Tour de Timor bicycle race and other high-profile events to investing in education and rural employment
- A Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been established and there is an active Rotary Club, but general awareness of corporate social responsibility is low.