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BSR Insight Article: Human Rights Assessments: Lessons Learned from the Extractives Sector
Alison Colwell, Associate Director, Advisory Services
The increased global expectation that business respect human rights, underscored by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, has pushed companies to demonstrate due diligence of both their operations and business relationships with suppliers, governments, and other partners. Human Rights Assessments (HRAs) demonstrate due diligence and enhance management of risks and opportunities. Based on BSR's experience conducting human rights assessments (HRAs) with extractives companies, we have learned that: Read more
BSR Insight Article: Local Social Performance Management in Energy and Extractives
Michael Oxman, Director, Advisory Services Joyce Sood, Former Digital Communications Manager
Local social and sustainable performance is critical to energy and mining companies' ability to secure and maintain a social license to operate at various sites around the world. BSR's Director of Energy and Extractives Michael Oxman highlights a few areas that form the foundation for planning and implementation of social performance management, including human rights, community engagement, community development and social investment, and local content, and offers solutions for effective management of local social performance plans. Read more
BSR Insight Article: BSR at Rio+20
Julia Robinson, Communications Associate
Rio+20, an important milestone that marks two decades since the first Earth Summit, kicks off this week in Brazil. BSR--which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2012--is excited to join companies, NGOs, and governments to develop new strategies and innovative partnerships for sustainability. BSR Senior Vice President Eric Olson, South America Director Joe Sellwood, and Advisory Services Manager Alison Colwell will attend the UN Global Compact Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum from June 15 through 18: Read more
Blog: BSR at Rio: To Brazil and Back Again—A 20-Year Human Rights Journey
Alison Colwell, Associate Director, Advisory Services
I will have the opportunity to return to Brazil, my place of birth, for the Rio+20 Earth Summit almost 20 years since I was there last. As an American, Canadian, and Brazilian, I will be a part of the global community descending on Rio, also two decades since the first Earth Summit. Read more →
Blog: Caring for China’s ‘Left-Behind’ Children
Yating Shen, Associate, Advisory Services
According to a report by China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the 253 million migrants who left their rural homes in China for urban jobs left behind 58 million children, 40 percent of whom were under the age of 5. Read more →
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