Business & Human Rights

NGOs Push Garment Supply Chain Transparency

July 14, 2017

A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a report calling on businesses in the garment and footwear industries to publicly disclose comprehensive information regarding their suppliers, which would permit civil society groups to place greater pressure on companies to call out alleged labor rights violations in their supply chains.
Letter Calls on EU to Enforce BHR "Due Diligence"

July 14, 2017

An open letter to the European Commission posted on the website of the Business & Human Rights (BHR) Resource Centre calls for the EU to develop a supranational enforcement mechanism requiring businesses in the garment sector to perform "due diligence" regarding human rights impacts in their supply chains in line with the UN Guiding Principles on BHR.
Shell CEO Calls for Transparency on Climate Risk

July 14, 2017

Showing the growing acceptance of the "climate disclosure" movement among energy companies, the CEO of Dutch oil giant Shell has stated that such companies should be more transparent about internal climate change risk assessments and how future government regulations cutting carbon emissions could jeopardize their oil and gas investments.
Dutch Official: Companies Must Push Countries on BHR

July 13, 2017

In a recent speech, Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen touted her government's expansive commitments to furthering the global BHR agenda in its trade policy and called on businesses to go beyond their own supply chains in pushing foreign governments to bolster their BHR policies.
US Pulls Back from Extractive Disclosure Rules

July 13, 2017

Zorka Milin of the nongovernmental organization Global Witness reviews the decisions by the Trump Administration and allies in Congress to pull back from rules requiring the reporting of payments to governments made by oil, gas, and mining companies.