Human Rights Workshop Series

Background

Human rights have been a focus of the SRWG’s work since the group started in 2002, as the oil and gas industry operates in some of the most challenging places in the world and can face complex human rights issues.

There are important intersections between business and human rights to consider, including: “doing the right thing”; risk management; access to resources; productive community relations; legal implications/shareholder resolutions; socially responsible investing; and, employee recruitment/retention/morale. Recognising the importance of this issue, IPIECA members are addressing human rights both as individual companies and collectively as an industry. One such example is the recent development of the IPIECA Human Rights Training Toolkit in 2006.

SRWG members invested 18 months developing and sharing expertise and practices on business and human rights, which culminated in the publication of the Human Rights Training Toolkit for the oil and gas industry. The Toolkit is available to download. The Toolkit provides managers with a template that can be used and adapted to conform to a company’s policy or position on human rights and applicable domestic laws and regulations. The Toolkit also provides assistance in developing or enhancing existing company policy.

History and Future of Workshops

The SRWG decided to hold a series of regional workshops to raise awareness of human rights issues for the oil and gas industry and publicise the Toolkit. The first workshop in London was a working session to share the then-draft Toolkit with company representatives and stakeholders from the expert human rights community and gather feedback for improvement. The second workshop in Kuala Lumpur brought together experts from academia, business, governments, and international and nongovernmental organizations to consider the “Asian perspective” on human rights and the extractive industry. The third workshop in Calgary addressed indigenous rights in North America. Further workshops will be held in South America in 2008 (Buenos Aires, Argentina – 3rd & 4th April) and Africa in 2009.

The proceedings of the Human Rights Workshops are shared here:

Workshop #4: Human Rights and the Oil & Gas Industry in Latin America - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 - 4 April 2008

Workshop #3: Human Rights, Indigenous Rights and the Extractive Industry - Calgary, Canada, 28 June 2007

Workshop #2: Business and Human Rights: An Asian Perspective - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 28 November 2006

Workshop #1: Working Session on IPIECA Human Rights Training Toolkit - London, England, 23 February 2006



Human Rights and the Oil & Gas Industry in Latin America
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 3-4 April 2008

Workshop agenda - English / Spanish (Word, 1MB)
Scenarios for Discussion - English & Spanish (PDF, 795KB)

Presentations - Introduction
Overview on Business and Human Rights in Latin America - Ernesto Borda, President, TRUST & Member, Comisión de Conciliación Nacional, Columbia - Spanish (PDF, 120KB)

Presentations - Panel 1 - Human Rights & Community Relations
Clara Indacochea, Coordinator of Social Responsibility, PETROPERU - Spanish (PDF, 623KB)
Alan Dabbs, Partner, Social Capital Group - English / Spanish (PDF, 451KB)

Presentations - Panel 2 - Tools to support the Oil & Gas Industry in the management of Human Rights
Overview of tools: Jeff Flood, Nexen - English (PDF, 1.35MB)
Willy Egset, Leader, Social Responsibility, StatoilHydro ASA - English (PDF, 500KB)
Yann Wyss, Projects Officer, Social Responsibility, IFC, Environment & Social Development Dept. - English (PDF, 507KB)

Presentations - Panel 3 - Human Rights & Indigenous Peoples
Esther Sánchez, independent consultant - Spanish (PDF, 288KB)
Napo León Gómez, Integral Responsibility Advisor, ECOPETROL - Spanish (PDF, 1.5MB)
Irinea Bardales, Representative, OMIKAP, Kakataibos Indigenous Women Organization of Perú - Spanish (PDF, 1MB)

Presentations - Panel 4 - Human Rights & Security – Voluntary Principles focus
Kevin Murphy, Issues Advisor, ExxonMobil - English (PDF, 137KB)
Alejandro Martínez, President, ACP, Asociación Colombiana del Petróleo - English (PDF, 277KB)
Nigel Carpenter, Director, Projects Security Support, Group Security, BP International Ltd.- English (PDF, 132KB)

Presentations - Case Studies
Partnerships in Columbia - Juan Carlos Ucrós, Legal and External Affairs Vice President, Occidental Colombia & Diana Klein, Project Manager, Peace-Building Issues, International Alert & José Rafael Unda, Director of Integral Responsibility ECOPETROL - English / Spanish (PDF, 2MB)

	Scenarios Programmes - industry and external (Word, 175KB)
	The South-east Asian Perspective on Human Rights, Tunku Datuk Nazihah bt Tunku Mohd Rus, Human Rights Commission Malaysia (pdf, 1.2MB)
	Rights based approach to development, the MDGs and business’ role, Ms Trudy Tan, United Nations Development Programme (pdf, 2.2MB)
	Total in Myanmar, (pdf, 1.5MB)
	BP in Tangguh, (pdf, 2.3MB)