Business & Human Rights

  • NGOs Seek to Embed Rights Standards in Machine Learning

    July 11, 2018

    A coalition of nongovernmental organizations has signed onto a “Toronto Declaration” that sets out human rights standards for machine-learning systems, particularly focused on requiring companies to ensure that such systems “respect the principles of equality and non-discrimination” and offer remedies to victims of alleged discrimination.

  • GRI Receives Post on EU Sustainable Finance Group

    July 11, 2018

    The European Commission has appointed the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an organization that pressures companies around the world to publicly disclose their handling of the social and environmental issues, to its Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance that will aim to align European investments with the goal of a “greener, more equitable economy.”

  • Stock Exchange Federation Releases Sustainability Reporting Guide

    July 11, 2018

    The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has applauded the World Federation of Exchanges’ publication of revised sustainability guidance for its member stock exchanges, setting out 30 environmental, social, and governance metrics on the basis of which companies should publicly disclose their social and environmental impacts.

  • Academic: AI May Become Tool for Gender Inequality

    July 10, 2018

    Professor Bettina Büchel of IMD Business School in Switzerland argues that companies must account for the risk that artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies may exacerbate gender inequality if they base employment and other decisions on "underlying biases" already prevalent in society.

  • EU Legislator Pushes for Rules Requiring Corporate Rights Observance

    July 09, 2018

    Member of the European Parliament Heidi Hautala calls on the European Commission to produce legislation binding EU-based companies to perform due diligence to determine the human rights risks related to their foreign operations and requiring them to provide access to remedies for victims of alleged human rights abuses.

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