Corporate Social Irresponsibility, an Elastic Wall, and a Fragile State: Sign of Hope’s Unfinished Quest to Mitigate Human Rights Violations in South Sudan

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Author(s)Kinderman, Daniel
Author(s)Stieglitz, Klaus
Author(s)Almairac, Laure
Date Accessioned2023-10-16T19:23:31Z
Date Available2023-10-16T19:23:31Z
Publication Date2023-10-06
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Business and Human Rights Journal. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2023.39. © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press
AbstractThis piece recounts the efforts by NGO Sign of Hope (SoH) to rectify human rights violations in South Sudan, which manifested themselves as drinking water pollution by the oil industry. Committed to exposing and remediating this water contamination, SoH was able to prompt the automobile company Daimler’s CSR to engage in extended dialogue with the oil industry stakeholders in Unity State. Despite a tactful use of various methods ranging from cooperation to confrontation, SoH’s campaign did not lead the oil producers to reverse the harm inflicted on the people of Unity State. When SoH tried to hold these companies accountable, SoH had the impression that it was hitting an elastic wall. This piece identifies lessons which may help to counter corporate human rights violations and compensate for the weakness of CSR in fragile states and in the face of corporate irresponsibility.
CitationKinderman, Daniel, Klaus Stieglitz, and Laure Almairac. “Corporate Social Irresponsibility, an Elastic Wall, and a Fragile State: Sign of Hope’s Unfinished Quest to Mitigate Human Rights Violations in South Sudan.” Business and Human Rights Journal, 2023, 1–7. doi:10.1017/bhj.2023.39.
ISSN2057-0201
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33554
Languageen_US
PublisherBusiness and Human Rights Journal
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Keywordsbusiness
Keywordscorporate social irresponsibility
KeywordsCSR
Keywordshuman rights
Keywordslessons learned
Keywordsoil industry
KeywordsSouth Sudan
TitleCorporate Social Irresponsibility, an Elastic Wall, and a Fragile State: Sign of Hope’s Unfinished Quest to Mitigate Human Rights Violations in South Sudan
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