Teaching About the Legal and Societal Obligations of Enterprises--Some Video Resources

(Pix (c) Larry catá Backer 2015)

Sometimes videos serve as a more useful means of introducing a subject or provoking discussion than lots and lots of words (though those inevitably follow). For those interested using video as an entry point for discussing the issues around the activities of business that touch on human rights or the societal responsibilities of business (and perhaps the political obligations of the states that ought to manage these behaviors), with no judgment or endorsement of the politics of these suggestions except as entry point for discussion and analysis the following is offered:

• 5 videos from Al Jazeera “corporations on trial";
  
• 13 min video – "Peru Mining and Human Rights Defenders;
  
• 30 min video – SHIFT: Corporate-Community Dialogue: An Introduction (3 case studies of community-biz dialogue/mediation (Peru, Nigeria, Phillipines);
  
• 15 min video – supply chains and human rights;
  
• Inter-active video from The Guardian “ The shirt on your back: the human cost of the Bangladeshi garment industry”:
  
• 1 hour Ruggie interview – "Film: A Conversation With John Ruggie;
  
• 1 hr CSR debate: Robert Reich and David Vogel on Corporate Social Responsibility;
  
• 40 min podcast: The Corporate Social Responsibility Podcast--A Conversation With David Yosifon  and Larry Catá Backer on CSR and the Business and Human Rights Project;
• 1 hr 36 min video -- Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: Does the World Need a Treaty on Business and Human Rights? Weighing the Pros and Cons
• 1 hr 24 min -- Institute for Human Rights and Business:  2015 Top Ten List of Business and Human Rights Issues; 
• 3 min -- There's a business case for human rights; 
• 17 min -- The Agenda With Steve Paikin; Arvind Ganesan: Industry and Human Rights;
•  30 min --  Soka Gakkai International (SGI) ; A Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights Education (English)