Business & Human Rights

  • Paper Calls for Indian BHR Framework

    April 08, 2016

    The Ethical Trading Initiative has published a paper calling on India to follow the lead of other countries that have developed national action plans on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR") by developing its own "national framework" to hold companies accountable for violations of the global BHR agenda.

  • BHR Analysts Seek Corporate "Peace-building" in Conflict Zones

    April 08, 2016

    Annie Kelly writes that, in addition to robust supply-chain protections of "economic, social, environmental and cultural rights," business and human rights ("BHR") activists and observers are seeking corporate contributions to "peace-building" when they operate in areas of armed conflict.

  • NGO Event Pushes EU Policies for "Sustainable" Supply Chains

    April 07, 2016

    Nongovernmental organization CSR Europe recently hosted an event in Brussels at which politicians, human rights activists, and business representatives called for EU policies promoting responsibility of corporations for the human rights and "sustainability" situations in their supply chains.

  • Paper Examines Effects of Social Movements on Companies

    April 07, 2016

    An article by Panayiotis Georgallis of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor examines how social movements can influence the behavior of corporate leaders and cause them to advance social initiatives, including by making such initiatives more attractive by modifying the expectations of businesses' stakeholders.

  • NGOs Decry "Inadequate" UK Action on BHR Violations

    April 07, 2016

    In a recent petition, the nongovernmental organizations Amnesty International and CORE call on the British Government to grant its National Contact Point ("NCP") under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises more authority to punish corporations, including through criminal sanctions, these NGOs accuse of violating the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.

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