...if the process of negotiating and instituting host government agreements is to respond to the criticisms from Amnesty, companies are going to have to change the way they identify and manage risk. If companies have learned anything over the past decade, it is that their behaviour on human rights forms an integral part of their reputation and licence to operate. Not to take this into account when negotiating host government agreements is not just bad for the rights of local people, it is also commercial suicide.