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IHRB Calls for BHR Due Diligence in Data Use
November 11, 2016
The Institute for Human Rights and Business has published a report calling on businesses using consumer data to market their products and services to perform due diligence under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to ensure that the source of the data did not violate anyone's human rights in obtaining it.
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NGO Calls for Reporting on IFC Development Projects
November 11, 2016
In line with efforts to impose public reporting requirements on companies under the global business and human rights agenda, the nongovernmental organization Inclusive Development International is releasing a series of papers calling for bolstered reporting requirements for development projects funded by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.
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BHR Treaty Group Targets 2017 Talks on Final Content
November 11, 2016
In its report of the final day of the second negotiating session for a binding UN business and human rights (BHR) treaty, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice relates that the Working Group charged with developing the treaty held a discussion on mandatory remedies for BHR violations and targeted 2017 for talks on the final content of the treaty.
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NGOs Call for Canadian Ombudsman on Mining Impacts
November 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations Inter Pares and the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability have published an article calling for the establishment of an ombudsman in Canada who would monitor and impose mandatory penalties on Canadian mining companies for their alleged violations of the global business and human rights agenda.
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Professor Calls for Reporting Mandates in BHR Treaty
November 10, 2016
Following the conclusion of the second session of the Working Group charged with developing a binding UN business and human rights treaty, Professor Erika George of the University of Utah College of Law writes that a key component of such a treaty must be the global harmonization of corporate BHR reporting standards.
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