Business & Human Rights

  • NGO Organizes Investor Call for Climate Reporting

    June 18, 2019

    Bloomberg reports that the Carbon Disclosure Project, a nongovernmental initiative that provides a framework for companies to report on their greenhouse gas emissions levels, has corralled a group of investors managing a combined $10 trillion in assets to pressure businesses to provide more information on their climate impacts.

  • Consultant Pushes for Ongoing Rights Monitoring in Trade Deals

    June 13, 2019

    Business and human rights consultant Dr. Jennifer Ann Zerk encourages countries striking trade deals to supplement human rights impact assessments with “institutional arrangements” that allow monitors to follow up on rights impacts and tackle challenges that emerge throughout the international trading relationship.

  • NGO Pushes for Integration of BHR, SDG Efforts

    June 13, 2019

    The Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a paper explaining how governments and corporations should encourage the integration of efforts to implement business and human rights (BHR) standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including by promoting corporate “due diligence” for BHR impacts.

  • UN Body Calls on G20 to Implement BHR Standards

    June 12, 2019

    The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (BHR) has issued a call for members of the G20 group of countries to fully implement the UN Guiding Principles on BHR by adhering to commitments to impose “due diligence” requirements on corporations for human rights impacts in global supply chains.

  • OECD Celebrates Global Initiative Identifying Targets for Taxation

    June 12, 2019

    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued a press release lauding its Automatic Exchange of Information initiative for providing an “impressive” level of transparency on global assets “that can now be effectively taxed by authorities worldwide.”

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