What is the responsibility of business during armed conflict?
11 May 2023
Many companies are operating in conflict zones, whether it is Sudan, Ukraine, or Myanmar.
Some perform necessary functions, such as providing water or electricity, or delivering food and healthcare. But others, by the nature of their activities, run the risk of being complicit in perpetuating conflict and aiding abuses and crimes.
What type of corporate activities can lead to such risks? What’s needed to hold companies to account for the negative impacts they might have during conflict?
In this episode of Voices, you’ll meet Mark Taylor, an expert in human rights and business, and senior program manager with the Clooney Foundation of Justice’s Docket Initiative. Mark talks with IHRB’s Salil Tripathi about the risk of corporate complicity when operating in zones of conflict, as well as the need for greater company transparency, and more investigative power for civil society to hold complicit companies to account.
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Host: Deborah Sagoe, IHRB's Communications Coordinator
Producer & Editor: Helen Brown
Additional Contributors: Sam Simmons, IHRB's Head of Communications
