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  Company operations in weak governance zones: a practical guide for non-extractive industries

  Fundación Ideas para la Paz, 2006

  The paper discusses a voluntary business code of conduct based on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights for non-extractive industries operating in weak governance zones.
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  Business and human rights: the role of business in weak governance: business proposals for effective ways of addressing dilemma situations in weak governance zones

  Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2006

  This main objective of this paper is to identify effective ways for companies to deal with dilemma situations encountered in weak governance zones. The first part of the paper presents the range of issues associated with weak governance zones and the reality faced by companies that operate or are contemplating operating in them.
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  Privatisation of security and military functions and the demise of the modern nation-state in Africa

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2006

  This document considers whether the privatisation of security greatly undermines the very foundation upon which state authority rests, and if so, how.
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  Development, peace and human rights in Colombia: a business agenda

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2006

  The report demonstrates how companies can work in partnership with other stakeholders to create conditions for lasting peace and prosperity.
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  Afghanistan, Inc: a Corpwatch investigative report

  Corporate Watch, 2006

  This investigative report argues that Afghans are losing their faith in the development experts whose job is to reconstruct and rebuild their country. While the quality of life for most is modestly improved, they were promised much more.
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  Canadian energy and mining companies navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st century

  Ethical Funds Company, 2005

  With a particular focus on the impact of mining and energy companies in conflict countries, this paper examines the body of International law regarding human rights violations.It highlights the following points:American, British, French, and Canadian companies have been implicated in crimes when contracting host country security forces to protect corporate assets and/or after building t
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  Paying for protection: the Freeport mine and the Indonesian security forces

  Global Witness, 2005

  This report examines the controversy surrounding the “Freeport” (Freeport McMoRan, Freeport Indonesia) mine’s relationship with Indonesian state security forces in the conflict region of Papua. The Indonesian military has a history of atrocities against civilians and is known to have been involved in corruption and illegal business activities, as have the police.
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  Broken vows: exposing the loupe holes in the diamond industry’s efforts to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds

  Global Witness, 2004

  This paper evaluates how well the US diamond industry is complying with self-regulation established to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds, known as the ‘Kimberley Process’.The paper finds compliance with the Kimberley Process among companies surveyed ‘abysmal’:only five of the thirty retailers sent information on their policies on conflict diamonds when requestedthere were low
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  Sudan, oil, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.
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  Options for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector

  International Peace Academy, 2002

  This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.

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