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Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business—A Pioneering Country-Based Initiative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Donna Jean GUEST
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Keywords

Myanmarsector-wide impact assessmentmultistakeholder dialogue
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Developments in the Field
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Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , July 2016 , pp. 341 - 348
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Senior Advisor for South East Asia, Institute for Human Rights and Business.

References

1 These include the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of people, most notably the vast majority of Muslims in Rakhine State who self-identify as Rohingya.

2 Myanmar EITI, http://www.meiti.org/ (accessed 6 February 2016).

3 Environmental Conservation Dept, Myanmar Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forests, www.ecd.gov.mm/?q=policy (accessed 6 February 2016).

4 MCRB, ‘Land Briefing Paper’, (March 2015), http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/pdf/2015-04-02-LAND-Briefing.pdf (accessed 6 February 2016).

5 IHRB, ‘Occasional Paper: Responsible Business in Myanmar – the Human Rights Dimension’, (17 September 2012), http://www.ihrb.org/publications/reports/responsible-investment-myanmar.html (accessed 6 February 2016).

6 Republic of the Union of Myanmar, 'Notice to Ensure the Responsible Investment in the Thilawa SEZ’ (7 August 2015), http://www.myanmarthilawa.gov.mm/sites/default/files/Responsible%20business.pdf (accessed 6 February 2016).

7 MCRB, SWIAs, http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org (accessed 6 February 2016). The Oil and Gas, Tourism, and ICT SWIAs have been published; the Mining SWIA will be published in late 2016.

8 Transparency International, ‘Transparency in Corporate Reporting 2014, Assessing the World’s Largest Companies’, http://issuu.com/transparencyinternational/docs/2014_transparencyincorporatereporti?e=2496456/9997410 (accessed 6 February 2016).

9 See MCRB, ‘Pwint Thit Sa Project/TiME’, http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/pwint-thit-sa/ (accessed 6 February 2016).

10 Myanmar Petroleum Resources Limited, ‘How companies respond to complaints and grievances – MPRL E & P Perspectives’, (3 June 2015), available at http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/workshop-developing-effective-grievance-mechanism.html (accessed 6 February 2016).

11 Physicians for Human Rights, ‘A Foreseeable Disaster in Burma, Forced Displacement in Thilawa Special Economic Zone, (November 2014), http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/a-foreseeable-disaster-in-burma.html (accessed 6 February 2016).

12 MCRB, ‘Background note, United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights – Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Myanmar, (November 2015), http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/pdf/2015-11-Background-Note-UN-Forum-on-Business-and-Human-Rights.pdf (accessed 6 February 2016) and Kaufman, Jonathan and McDonnell, Katherine, ERI, ‘Community Driven Operational Grievance Mechanisms’ (2016), 1 Business and Human Rights Journal, 127 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

13 MCRB Submissions, http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/tags.html?tag=submissions (accessed 6 February 2016).

14 Robert, Pierre, Bray, John, Sein, Kyi Kyi, ‘Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business Mid Term Review’, page 3, (October 2015), http://myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/pdf/2015-10-MCRB-Mid-Term-Review.pdf Google Scholar (accessed 6 February 2016).

15 Amnesty International, ‘Open for Business? Corporate Crime and Abuses at Myanmar Copper Mine’, (10 February 2015), https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/0003/2015/en/ (accessed 6 February 2016).

16 A phrase coined by Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard Kennedy School to describe someone who is able and experienced in business, government and the social sector.