“How does a company ensure respect for the human rights of local communities when circumstances dictate that they must rely on the protection of public security forces with a history of committing human rights violations?”
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On 6 July 2011, the Small Arms Survey 2011, produced by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, reported that...
Dear Forum mates, I have been recently analysing the situation with security forces and human rights and would like to share with you some of the...
Children in Armed Conflict and Risk to Business: Countries and Armed Groups that are Repeated Users of Child Soldiers Children are drawn in armed...
If circumstances dictate that companies must rely on security forces with a history of committing human rights violations against local communities...
http://www.cetim.ch/en/documents/report_8.pdf
The dilemma page on this issue notes that there’s a myriad of factors in determining whether a company employs private security or relies on existing...
I note that in the security dilemma, it is suggested that companies employ private security contractors where public security contractors can’t be...
Today, I found a copy of the De Beers’s Security Forces and Human Rights Policy. You can google it and it comes up on the De Beers Group website. ...
A great resource from the UNGC and UN PRI covering a whole range of security/conflict-related issues - including public security forces. See:...
The risks involved in engaging with local security forces (whether on a voluntary basis or not) was highlighted when it was reported (November 2010)...
Measures need to be obligatory, not voluntary, and social movements - not corporations - are the only driving force that will make a difference. And...
In extreme situations, individual company managers can potentially he held criminally liable for gross human rights violations. According to...
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