Updated OECD guidelines (pdf) now say enterprises may need to consider applying additional standards to respect human rights when dealing with groups such as indigenous people, commit multinationals to ensuring such stakeholders are included in decision-making that affects their communities, and reiterate International Labour Organisation recommendations on equal opportunities.
There is no international consensus on the use (or misuse) of forests, and they remain at the centre of myriad conflicting interests between indigenous peoples and multinational corporations, loggers and environmentalists.
When contacted about this, a Department of Enterprise spokesperson would only say that its support agencies "work primarily with indigenous exporting companies and foreign multinationals", but that "following publication of the [Forfas] report it would make a decision on the most appropriate structures to deliver further supporting actions in this important area of policy".
It has been a violent frontline between multinational interests and indigenous and land rights".
As a consequence of unethical practices by accountants and auditors, which have resulted in the distress or occasionally the closure of companies, some indigenous Nigerian Managing Directors of multinational corporations such as Lever Brothers Nigeria Plc and Cadbury Nigeria Plc have been sacked and replaced with expatriates.
The OECD – which is seeking to expand its reach in Latin America and sees Chile as a model for Brazil's potential membership – has itself come under pressure to develop more rigorous guidelines on how multinationals should behave towards indigenous peoples.
Ms. Shiva says that allowing multinational companies to patent indigenous produce and knowledge is a theft and has resulted in the revoking of a European patent for the traditional Indian neem tree.
Scholars who made a foray into CSR and IBs in Ghana were largely within the arena of comparative analysis of the characteristics of multinationals vis-a-vis their indigenous counterparts in relation to their orientation towards the concept (Hinson and Ofori 2007: Kuada & Hinson, 2012).
Skolkovo is supposed to act as a factory for indigenous technologists and entrepreneurs, a magnet for foreign multinationals, an inspiration for young people, an insurance policy against over-reliance on energy and a bridge between the scientific and the business worlds.
The demonstrators insist that the multinational fuel producer's treatment of Indigenous communities in various parts of the world and its environmental record render it a highly inappropriate sponsor for an exhibition featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artifacts.
