Bad Business: Why Companies Shouldn't Trade with Abusive Regimes

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1947
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Source: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Year: 2008

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Abstract:

Is selling police equipment to a notoriously brutal government tantamount to assisting in torture?
William Schulz believes that it can be, and that these types of sales are one of the principal ways in which businesses can entangle themselves with torturers. Schulz, former executive director of Amnesty International, spoke during a presentation last week sponsored by Wharton's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research.
Seldom are businesses in the developed world implicated directly in torture, but too often they avert their eyes as their products, purchases or independent contractors support abuses, according to Schultz, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank based in Washington, D.C.