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26 Jun 2016

Report says few companies implementing UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights in Uganda's oil sector

IPIS vzw and ActionAid Uganda have published a third in a series of four reports exploring business and human rights issues in Uganda’s oil sector. This series is a collaboration between IPIS vzw and ActionAid Uganda. The current report explores how to implement the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. The report concludes that although many companies have endorsed the UNGPs, in the years since they were published in 2012, very few have truly taken up the mantle of implementing them fully in spirit. Were more to do so, it would  be much clearer to the interested public how companies are assessing risk, and what they are doing to put management systems in place to mitigate and prevent human rights harms. [refers to Tullow Oil, CNOOC, SOCO,Kuoni,G4S, China National Petroleum Corporation, Heritage Oil & Total]