Road to rights: Companies respond to allegations linked to infrastructure projects in EECA
In May 2023, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre published Road to rights: The human cost of the new “Middle Corridor” - an analysis of the scale and scope of human rights abuse linked to infrastructure investments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, outlining the approaches which must be urgently adopted to deliver infrastructure which builds shared prosperity and a stable investment environment, as well as avoid the growing corporate regulatory, legal and reputational risks of abusing human and environmental rights.
The briefing focuses on completed, ongoing and planned infrastructure projects with actual and potential risks. The briefing also outlines recommendations for investors and companies to ensure further development is not accompanied by human rights and environmental abuse.
In line with the Resource Centre’s strategy and libel policy, we made every effort to reach out to companies and investors accused of abuse and ask them to respond to allegations made using our Company Response Mechanism (unless the company has already publicly commented on the case, or if the abuse is the basis of a lawsuit or regulatory action, or the company has no website or contacts to reach to them).
We received nine responses - four responses from companies and five responses from investors.
All company/investor responses and non-responses can be found below.