Business & Human Rights

  • Asian Countries Move to Implement BHR Agenda

    March 04, 2019

    Melissa Chong of the nongovernmental organization Corporate Citizenship writes that plans in countries like Thailand and India to develop national guidelines on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) could portend a shift toward corporate supply chain BHR due diligence across Asia.

  • UN Body Requires Climate Reporting from Investors

    March 01, 2019

    The UN Principles for Responsible Investment, a body that pushes investors to abide by a set of ethical principles, has announced it will require investors who are signatories to report beginning in 2020 on how they are considering the risks of climate change in their portfolios.

  • UN Rights Observers Warn Ireland over Migrant Fishermen

    March 01, 2019

    A group of UN human rights mandate holders has warned Ireland’s migrant worker scheme for fishermen breaches workers’ human rights by linking them too closely with a single employer.

  • Australia Launches Program to Finance UN Climate Pledges

    March 01, 2019

    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has launched an AUD 2 billion Climate Solutions Fund to help meet the country’s greenhouse gas emissions pledges under the UN’s Paris climate deal.

  • UN, NGO Partner on Corporate SDG Assessment Platform

    February 27, 2019

    The UN Global Compact has announced it is working with nongovernmental organization B Lab to build an online platform that presses companies to contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by giving them tools to measure their SDG performance and compare it to that of other companies.

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