Colloquium about Burma with EarthRights International Group

Energy Security:
Security for Whom?
Hydrocarbons and Human Rights in Military-ruled Burma

Colloquium with Matthew F. Smith and Naing Htoo,
EarthRightsInternational, Southeast Asia
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

From the webpage:

"While the energy industry has performed a remarkable feat in delivering energy to a large percentage of humankind in a relatively short period of time, the benefits of resource production often evade the least advantaged actors, who bear the brunt of the negative impacts.

In Burma, also referred to as Myanmar, large-scale natural gas projects have directly and indirectly led to violations of basic human rights through the complicity of multinational corporate actors. These abuses are ongoing.

This paper assesses the past, present, and future human rights impacts of large-scale natural gas extraction in military-ruled Burma, and the implications these impacts have in terms of corporate responsibility.

Specifically, it focuses on the ongoing human rights impacts of the Yadana gas project in Burma operated by Chevron (USA), Total (France), and PTT (Thailand), and the threat of future human rights impacts of the Shwe gas project in Burma led by Daewoo International (South Korea)."

More information at
www.international.ucla.edu/asia/events/showevent.asp?eventid=6512