Business & Human Rights

Dutch NCP Finds Business Failings in Rana Plaza

November 16, 2016

The Dutch OECD National Contact Point has concluded that menswear company owner PWT Group failed to adhere to global due diligence standards in investigating the working conditions of its supplier, whose employees died in the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh in 2013.
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.
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.
NGOs Criticize Energy Companies' Climate Fund

November 11, 2016

The Guardian reports that a group of nongovernmental organizations are criticizing as "a drop in the ocean" a $1 billion fund recently launched by ten large energy companies that will seek to prevent natural gas leaks and capture carbon emissions in order to limit the impacts of global warming.
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.