Business & Human Rights

NGOs Push for Corporate Human Rights Prosecutions

December 01, 2017

A group of legal experts convened by Amnesty International and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable has issued a report calling for the governments of countries in which multinational corporations are based to expand the use of criminal prosecutions against these companies in cases of alleged human rights violations abroad.
UK NGOs Criticize Corporate Forced Labor Reporting

December 01, 2017

The UK CORE Coalition of civil society organizations has published a rating of British companies' compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act, which requires businesses to report on their efforts to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains, criticizing what it deems to be low compliance with the reporting requirements and calling for more transparency.
Lawyers Weigh in on Imposing Corporate "Climate Liability"

November 30, 2017

An article on Vice explores the potential of state laws introducing "climate liability" to force energy companies to pay for damage caused by storms allegedly linked to climate change and laments that "suing the living daylights out of Big Oil remains maddeningly difficult."
Chile Releases BHR Action Plan

November 30, 2017

The government of Chile has published a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (BHR) that explains how the government will require the private sector to implement the UN Guiding Principles on BHR and contribute to the fulfillment of the social and environmental targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Dutch Bank Adopts BHR Impact Assessments

November 30, 2017

Dutch development bank FMO has announced that, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR), it will perform "human rights impact assessments" to determine whether its investment projects threaten to violate the global BHR agenda and report on its human rights performance in its activities.