PT Unknown
AU Hamm Dr., B
   Schax, A
TI Human Rights Due Diligence through Stakeholder Engagement? The Case of a Copper-Gold Mine in the Philippines
SE INEF-Report
PY 2015
IS 109
DI 10.17185/duepublico/26915
LA en
AB The report examines to what extent stakeholder engagement as a form of private governance can contribute to a corporation’s human rights due diligence performance. It takes as the basis for investigation a case study of a stakeholder engagement program implemented by the operating company SMI for a planned copper-gold mine in the Philippines during the project’s preoperational phase. The analysis examines criteria for good stakeholder engagement set out by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and uses the UN Guiding Principles on Business 
and Human Rights as the conceptual framework. For the case investigated here, it is established that SMI’s stakeholder engagement program as well as the IFC’s guidelines evince several shortcomings from a human rights perspective, which in turn negatively affect other due diligence processes.
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