Other publications
Energy Insecurity
This report documents how three major oil companies are refusing requests by investors, labor unions, NGOs, and even former heads of state to disclose nearly 20 years of payments to the Burmese state, while the ruling generals orchestrate the country’s first elections in 20 years. The report reveals how the companies have misled their shareholders, the public, and governments about their legal ability to disclose their financial dealings in Burma.
Response to the UK consultation on the terms of reference for an update of the OECD Guidelines
On November 2009, the International Bar Association (IBA) created a Working Group to review the OECD Guidelines and respond to the consultation document requesting the views of key stakeholders on the priority areas in the Guidelines requiring update that was prepared by the UK Department of Business Innovation + Skills.
A Governance Gap
A report by Erth Rights International and Shwe Gas Movement on the failure of the Korean government to hold the Korean corporations accountable to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises regarding violations in Burma
Non-Judicial Remedies in Norway for Corporate Social Responsibility Abroad
A discussion paper contributing to the debate about companies' social impacts of Norwegian companies operating abroad. The fact that companies have social impacts – potentially both positive and negative – is the simple reality which drives the demand for socially responsible behavior by business. Today, there is a broad consensus among social and labour movements, governments, and companies themselves that social responsibility is – and must be – part of doing business globally. Yet, there is to date no global set of rules or institutions which embodies this consensus or which defines corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Can the OECD Guidelines protect human rights on the ground?
Despite their revision in 2000, there have been relatively few examples of the successful use of the framework provided by the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) to solve real problems on the ground. It is therefore not surprising that when a 2001 complaint regarding evictions of subsistence farmers from the land of Mopani Copper Mines—a Canadian/Swiss owned mine located in Zambia—was resolved to the satisfaction of all parties, it became a frequently citied case study of how the Guidelines could and should work.
