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1 Aug 2013

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Shift

[PDF] Bringing a Human Rights Lens to Stakeholder Engagement: Shift Workshop Report No 3

[Many] human rights impacts can be linked back to challenges related to stakeholder engagement...On 23-24 May 2013, Shift held...[a] workshop focused on...stakeholder engagement in implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It sought to generate practical guidance for companies on what it means in practice to bring a human rights lens to stakeholder engagement... Common Pitfalls in Stakeholder Engagement....The sections that follow highlight...key ideas...: A. With Whom companies need to engage; B. About What issues...; C. How engagement should take place; D. When engagement should take place; E. Corporate/Policy Level engagement; F. Internal engagement; and, G. Engaging Neutrals when necessary. The report concludes in Section 4 with a set of diagnostic questions to assess whether their stakeholder engagement strategies are consistent with their human rights commitments. [refers to AngloGold Ashanti, Codelco, Ericsson, General Electric, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hitachi, Total]