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Article

1 Sep 2010

Author:
Global Business Initiative on Human Rights

Business and human rights dialogues

- Bob Corcoran - Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, General Electric...Discusses: Getting started and showing leadership in integrating human rights into business management. "...[Our] statement of principles on human rights...[has] been very helpful to us as we’ve gone about the business of doing business, and doing it properly...". - Alejandra Guaqueta - Chief of Social Standards and Relations Division, Cerrejón [joint venture Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Xstrata)]...Discusses: A rights-based approach: clarity, culture change and daily realities [also in Spanish]. "In the Colombian context people associate human rights violations with torture and with massacres, but there are other rights at stake...”. - Ron Popper - Director of Corporate Responsibility, ABB. Discusses: Benefits of conducting thorough human rights due diligence. “....it became very clear to us at an early stage that the human rights and environmental impacts [of a dam project] would have been very very negative indeed. We backed away from it. Other companies went for it. The financing for the project was eventually withdrawn. Proper due diligence won the day". - Ed Potter - Director, Global Workplace Rights, The Coca-Cola Company. Discusses: The journey to further human rights within the company and the importance of external engagement.