Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
HRDs’ work is essential to the business and human rights movement because of their critical importance for ensuring corporate responsibility and accountability. Yet, attacks on them are growing. This hub brings together news on these advocates and communities - specifically on land, environmental and labour defenders, guidance for companies ...
UN Guiding Principles - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
4 天之前 · UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs) The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations. They were proposed by UN Special Representative on business and human rights John Ruggie, and ...
About Us - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2020年6月29日 · We help communities and NGOs get companies to address human rights concerns, and provide companies an opportunity to present their response in full. We take up alleged abuse quickly and directly with companies. We’ve made over 6,000 approaches to companies asking them to respond to specific human rights allegations.
Human rights defenders & business in 2022: People challenging …
2023年5月3日 · Between January 2015 – March 2023, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre tracked more than 4,700 attacks against human rights defenders raising concerns about harmful business practice. In 2022 alone, we tracked 555 attacks, revealing that on average more than 10 defenders were attacked every single week for raising legitimate concerns about irresponsible business activity.
Blog - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2024年10月1日 · Rights under fire: A business & human rights lens one year after Russia’s military aggressions in Ukraine. On 24 February Russia invaded Ukraine prompting widespread global economic sanctions. Businesses operating in Russia have been under pressure to review their presence and undertake heightened due diligence - but one year on more than ...
[PDF] The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: …
2024年10月6日 · In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent and address human rights abuses committed in business operations.
Updated UN treaty draft on business and human rights presents …
2024年10月5日 · IndustriALL analyses latest draft text of the binding treaty in new statement Date: 23 Oct 2023 Content Type: Article. IndustriALL calls for closer alignment of the current text of the treaty with the third draft, stronger provisions on corporate impunity and the reintroduction of language pertaining to the climate crisis.
Labour Rights - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Labour Rights. Global inequalities in power allow the profit maximisation model of businesses to shape a global economy that prioritises profit over people. The dominance of this model facilitates various forms of exploitation including poverty wages, discrimination and violence, crackdowns on trade unions and collective organising, rising ...
UN Business and Human Rights Treaty Negotiations
At the upcoming Binding Treaty negotiations, global trade unions are calling for the following priorities to be strengthened: A broad substantive scope covering all internationally recognised human rights, including fundamental workers’ and trade union rights, as defined by relevant international labour standards.
Briefing highlights latest mandatory human rights due diligence …
2022年1月17日 · "Business and Human Rights: Navigating a Changing Legal Landscape", January 2022. Legislation governing business impacts on human rights is increasing, with mandatory human rights reporting, due diligence obligations and other regulatory and legislative devices continuing to emerge across the globe.