BHR

Ruggie Considers "Next Steps" in BHR Development

July 29, 2015

In a recent paper, Harvard University Professor John Ruggie, developer of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR"), suggests various future targets of the BHR agenda, including investor-state dispute mechanisms in international trade treaties and a binding treaty dealing with "gross" human rights violations.
Paper Lists Arms Treaty Lessons for BHR Treaty Proponents

July 29, 2015

Marilyn Croser of the CORE Coalition writes that proponents of a binding treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") issues should follow the example of the UN Arms Trade Treaty, adopted in 2014, by pushing an "ambitious yet achievable" document that would be acceptable to countries that are home to a substantial number of transnational corporations.
FIFA Implements BHR Standards in Bidding Process

July 29, 2015

In response to charges of widespread corruption, the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Association Football ("FIFA") has announced a series of reforms, including a mandate that contractual World Cup partners and businesses in their supply chains comply with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR").
Campaign Seeks World Court to Enforce BHR Treaty

July 29, 2015

A submission from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity to a UN working group developing a treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") issues calls for a wide-ranging treaty that would provide for corporate and executive criminal liability and establish a World Court on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights to rule on alleged violations.
Activists Seek Global Monitoring of Development Partnerships

July 29, 2015

A document from a group of nongovernmental organizations calls for the integration of international business and human rights standards in the UN's post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and pushes countries to grant authority to a global body to monitor partnerships made with businesses to advance the UN's development agenda.
WWF Assesses BRICS Incorporation of Sustainability Agenda

July 29, 2015

The nongovernmental organization WWF has published a report finding uneven progress among governments in the BRICS group of countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - in regulating financial markets in order to push investor consideration of the "sustainable development" agenda advocated by the UN and environmental and human rights activists.
AI: Private Development Must Comply with BHR Standards

July 29, 2015

In response to the encouragement by some governments for corporations to fund the UN development agenda, Amnesty International's ("AI") Savio Carvalho writes that governments must force businesses to prove that they comply with global standards on business and human rights ("BHR") before they are permitted to participate in development efforts.
UK Law Society Launches BHR Program

July 29, 2015

The UK Law Society has announced that it is the first bar association in the world to adopt a program on the implementation of UN business and human rights ("BHR") standards in the legal profession.
UN Initiative Seeks BHR Engagement Among Investors in Extractive Industry

July 27, 2015

The UN-supported initiative Principles for Responsible Investment has published a report calling for investors in the extractive industry to engage to a greater degree with companies to encourage them to implement the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
NYU Pushes BHR Agenda in Business Education

July 27, 2015

A profile published on MBA Today explains how the Center for Business and Human Rights ("BHR") at the New York University ("NYU") Stern School of Business has integrated the UN's BHR agenda in business education.