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Article

1 Oct 2004

Author:
Sune Skadegard Thorsen, Partner in Lawhouse.dk and Director of Corporate Responsibility Ltd., in Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL)

[PDF] Critical perspectives on Oil and Human Rights

A more comprehensive human rights based strategy, that would target issues that have not yet been on the radar screen of industry critics, does not appear to emerge clearly from any of the actors, including front-runners like BP, Statoil, and Shell, even though these companies have committed themselves more broadly to human rights...it remains difficult to see any of the companies strategising their core business around human rights and going beyond risk management.