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Philippines Rights Body Advances Climate Complaint
June 15, 2016
The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines is requiring a response from the largest global energy and cement companies to a complaint recently filed by individuals and organizations seeking to hold these businesses responsible for their contributions to climate change and recent fatal weather events in the country.
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Article Highlights Difficulties in Canadian CSR Program
June 15, 2016
Lawyer Josh Sheinert writes that Canada's attempt to fulfill international business and human rights standards by creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for its extractive sector has been beset by problems relating to lack of clarity in standards and in how officials attempting to carry out the policy are supposed to do so.
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NGOs Publish Guide on BHR Defenders in Action Plans
June 15, 2016
The International Service for Human Rights and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable have published a guide for countries developing a national action plan on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to include the protection and "support" of "human rights defenders" in their action plans.
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Consultancy Produces BHR Due Diligence Tool
June 15, 2016
The consultancy GLOBAL CSR has launched a Human Rights Due Diligence Tool that guides companies on how to establish an effective due diligence process to assess their impacts on 48 human rights under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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HRW Calls for Binding Supply-Chain Treaty
June 14, 2016
Prior to a recent conference of the UN's International Labour Organization, Human Rights Watch called for the ILO and governments to support the creation of a global, binding treaty that would require companies to establish safeguards to prevent human rights violations in their supply chains.
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