Eni vs UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

 In its “Declaration on Human Rights”, ENI “publicly” states to all its Stakeholders that it follows the “UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” (UNGP 31).

Therefore, in my case, ENI should pay attention to what these principles guide, especially the principles concerning:

The corporate responsibility to respect human rights

Principle 11: “Business enterprises should respect human rights. This means that they should avoid infringing on the human rights of others and should address adverse human rights impacts with which they are involved”.

Principle 13: “The responsibility to respect human rights requires that business enterprises: (a) Avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, and address such impacts when they occur; (b) Seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to their operations, products or services by their business relationships, even if they have not contributed to those impacts”.

Principle 15: “In order to meet their responsibility to respect human rights, business enterprises should have in place policies and processes appropriate to their size and circumstances, including: (a) A policy commitment to meet their responsibility to respect human rights; (b) A human rights due diligence process to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their impacts on human rights; (c) Processes to enable the remediation of any adverse human rights impacts they cause or to which they contribute”.

Principle 17: “In order to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their adverse human rights impacts, business enterprises should carry out human rights due diligence. The process should include assessing actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating and acting upon the findings, tracking responses, and communicating how impacts are addressed”.

Principle 22: “Where business enterprises identify that they have caused or contributed to adverse impacts, they should provide for or cooperate in their remediation through legitimate processes”.

Principle 23: “In all contexts, business enterprises should: (a) Comply with all applicable laws and respect internationally recognized human rights, wherever they operate; (b) Seek ways to honour the principles of internationally recognized human rights when faced with conflicting requirements; (c) Treat the risk of causing or contributing to gross human rights abuses as a legal compliance issue wherever they operate”.

So, why does ENI, in my case, doesn't fulfill this "International Commitment"? 

Now, if ENI has no fear regarding the damage that I have repeatedly suffered over the years, it should at least fear all the unnecessary risks that the company is imposing on the Italian government, the “controlling” shareholder of the Italian oil giant and an "adherent nation" to the UNGP 31.