Business & Human Rights

Report Finds Increasing Resort to Climate Litigation

July 24, 2019

A research institute at the London School of Economics has published a report finding that activists are increasingly turning to strategic litigation to force governments and the “highest greenhouse-gas-emitting companies” to reduce emissions to prevent global warming, often using a human-rights basis for their lawsuits.
Ukraine Takes Steps Toward Action Plan on UNGPs

July 24, 2019

The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice recently consulted with the Danish Institute for Human Rights to create a “National Baseline Assessment” as part of the process of publishing a national action plan explaining how the country will implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
NGOs Publish Draft US Legislation Requiring Rights Reporting

July 24, 2019

A coalition of nongovernmental organizations has published a discussion draft of US legislation that would require companies to perform an annual assessment of the human rights impacts of their operations and supply chains and report the results to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
US Senate Bill Demands Corporate Climate Reporting

July 24, 2019

CNBC reports that US Senator Elizabeth Warren has reintroduced a bill that would require every public US company to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission on its exposure to the negative impacts of global warming.
ILO Report Laments Rising Global Income Inequality

July 24, 2019

The UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) has published a report reviewing global data on worker pay and warning of the pervasiveness of “income inequality” among workers around the world.