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Record W3032640545 · doi:10.60082/2563-4631.1094

Implementing UNDRIP in Canada: Any Role for Corporations?

2020· article· en· W3032640545 on OpenAlex
Basil Ugochukwu

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Transnational Human Rights Review · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHuman Rights and Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousDeclarationContext (archaeology)Argument (complex analysis)NormativePolitical scienceHuman rightsIndigenous rightsLaw and economicsPublic relationsState (computer science)Sample (material)Public administrationBusinessLawSociologyGeography

Abstract

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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) offers guidance on how the rights of indigenous populations could be protected in the context of member states of the United Nations. While the Declaration prescribes what states need to do to effectively realize its objective, question is whether there are expectations on non-state actors such as corporations to contribute towards attaining those objectives. Though on the one hand the UNDRIP is textually not directed at corporations, on the other hand, corporations are routinely implicated in environments where massive violations of indigenous rights have occurred in various regions of the world. The main argument of this paper is that whereas the UNDRIP does not specifically mention corporations, the contributions of businesses would nonetheless be essential for the effective implementation of UNDRIP in Canada. In the paper, I intend to examine how the text of the indigenous policies of Canadian corporations align with objectives of the UNDRIP. I do so by analyzing a representative sample of indigenous human rights policies of Canadian corporations to see the extent that they engage with the UNDRIP and whether their policies could facilitate best-practice ideas for UNDRIP implementation. The sample policies will be assessed for their substantive content, normative language, potential weaknesses, and possible impact on UNDRIP implementation in the Canadian context. In particular, I will pay close attention to whether the studied policies have enough ingredients to meaningfully contribute to the achievement of UNDRIP goals in Canada as well as indicate any possible impacts they could have on broader corporations/indigenous communities’ relations.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.917
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.067
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it