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Article

21 Oct 2009

Author:
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

[PDF] Human Rights Dilemmas

Speakers [:] Mauricio Lazala, Senior Researcher, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; Frank Mantero, Director, Corporate Citizenship Programs, GE Corporation; Ebele Okobi-Harris, Director, Business and Human Rights Program, Yahoo! Inc.; Faris Natour, Director, Research & Innovation, BSR (moderator)...Quotes...“Disengaging from ‘difficult’ markets and denying citizens access to technology and the internet can have the unintended consequence of undermining the very human rights that we seek to promote...” ―Ebele Okobi-Harris...“It is an obvious paradox, but the same technology that supports some human rights can be used to infringe upon other human rights.” ―Frank Mantero...“Most Latin American countries have ratified many of the international human rights treaties; consequently, sometimes the issue is more about the social license to operate.” ―Mauricio Lazala...