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GE Global Initiatives
General Electric (GE) is a huge, multi-national company and its business decisions can have significant impacts, both positive and negative, not only on countries where it actively operates but also on countries within its supply chain. As a result, its global initiatives can be very broad and seemingly outside of GE's scope of operations. GE's human rights initiative is one such global initiative. Human rights violations are rife in the international community, particularly in areas of labor, and GE has made a commitment to reducing or eliminating human rights violations in its supply chain wherever possible. One way that GE has done so is by participating in a boycott Myanmar because of the relationship between Myanmar's old government and human rights abuses. However, recent elections may have changed the reality of business in Myanmar, and GE is taking steps to ensure that, if it engages in business with Myanmar in the future, it is not contributing to human rights violations.
The human rights abuses in Myanmar have been so pervasive that it is almost impossible to describe them all. The lists...
The response by the international community and many influential businesses, including GE, was to engage in a boycott of Myanmar, not engaging in direct business dealings with the country and trying to avoid its products in the supply chain. Other companies did not do so; in fact, Chevron was sued in a U.S. court because of allegations that it colluded with dictators in Burma to use forced labor. Citizens in Myanmar have also been active in trying to stop human rights abuses in the country, and, in 2012, voted for a substantially different government base, which seemed to promise changes in the country's political structure.
In its 2012 Sustainable Growth report, GE reported that it intended to change its position on doing business in or with Burma:
With the recent elections in Myanmar (formerly Burma), we anticipate that this country's history of severe human rights deprivations will moderate to the point that GE…
References
General Electric. (2012). 2012 sustainable growth: GE citizenship summary. Retrieved October
1, 2013 from GE.com website: http://www.gecitizenship.com/2012-report/download-the-2012-report/
Human Rights Watch. (2013). Human rights in Burma. Retrieved October 1, 2013 from HRW
website: http://www.hrw.org/burma
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