...This submission will describe the Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), a mechanism for multi-national corporations (MNCs) to proactively mitigate or eliminate the negative human rights impacts of their operations in the developing world, while magnifying their positive impacts. Moreover, it will demonstrate that pushing for companies to conduct HRIA has the potential to yield economic rewards, hopefully changing the calculus that respecting human rights is an expensive departure from the core mission of extractive enterprises...[refers to DeBeers, Chevron, Shell, UNOCAL(part of Chevron), Texaco (part of Chevron)]