BHR

Bank Group Explores BHR Responsibility

February 01, 2017

A discussion paper from a group of bank representatives promoting application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR), called the Thun Group, considers the point at which banks become "directly linked" to BHR violations and calls on them to develop due diligence procedures to prevent and deal with these situations.
NGO Calls for "Ethical Trade" to Support SDGs

January 23, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Ethical Trading Initiative has published a report highlighting how it is integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the global business and human rights agenda with its "ethical trade" initiatives to push for comprehensive business action supporting the UN's social and environmental goals.
NGOs Criticize "Voluntary" Measures in BHR Action Plans

January 19, 2017

A press release from the European Coalition for Corporate Justice on the Swiss, Italian, German, and US "national action plans" on implementing the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda laments that none of the plans relies on binding measures or provides for sufficient access to judicial remedy by alleged victims of BHR violations.
NGOs Explore Promotion of US BHR Action Plan

January 18, 2017

At a recent event at American University in Washington, D.C., a group of nongovernmental organizations considered how they can best promote the provisions of a recently released US National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct, in line with the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda, in light of the incoming Trump Administration.
UN Rights Chief Pushes BHR Agenda in Davos

January 18, 2017

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra-ad Al Hussein highlighted his office's attempts to use the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) as a comprehensive tool to pressure companies to contribute to nontraditional economic and social "human rights."
Paper Suggests Indicators to Track BHR Impacts

January 13, 2017

A paper by Dylan Tromp, a project manager at the UN's International Labour Organization, suggests a set of indicators for use by governments, businesses, and "other stakeholders" to assess corporate influence on human rights, with the aim of holding specific businesses accountable for their human rights impacts around the world.
NGO Guide Links SDGs to Human Rights

January 13, 2017

As part of human rights activists' and UN officials' efforts to suggest an enforcement mechanism to force businesses and governments to implement the UN's "sustainable development" agenda, the Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a guide to how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are anchored in a "legally-binding framework" of global human rights.
HRW Criticizes US Action Plan on BHR

January 05, 2017

Arguing that the plan "largely restates the status quo" and provides no new measures for implementing the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda, Human Rights Watch has criticized the recently released US National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct for failing to offer "legal teeth" to address BHR violations by American corporations.
NGO Calls on Trump to Enforce BHR Action Plan

January 04, 2017

Gregory Regaignon of the Business & Human Rights (BHR) Resource Centre has published a piece warning President-Elect Donald Trump to take seriously the need for the US to implement the global BHR agenda by enforcing the commitments made by the Obama Administration under its new National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct.
FIFA Faces Critique on BHR Pledges

January 04, 2017

David Segall of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (BHR) criticizes the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) for a perceived lack of progress on implementing the recommendations FIFA sought from Harvard Professor John Ruggie to better advance the UN Guiding Principles on BHR in its operations.