Business & Human Rights

OECD Highlights Progress on Global Tax Standards

July 27, 2016

With the latest reports from the organization's Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, the OECD has reviewed practices from 101 jurisdictions and claims progress in preventing corporate tax avoidance through the implementation of its global standards on the exchange of tax information.
NGO Report Encourages Expansive Climate Litigation

July 27, 2016

A report published by the Climate Justice Programme in Australia predicts a massive expansion in global litigation over the contribution by fossil fuel companies to climate change in the coming years and calls for the removal of restrictions in "international climate law" to global warming-related litigation.
NGOs Condemn Company for Migrant Detention

July 27, 2016

Two nongovernmental organizations have published a report calling for investors in global services and infrastructure operator Ferrovial to end their relationship with what they deem to be the company's abuses of the UN's business and human rights agenda through its operation of offshore detention centers for migrants attempting to reach Australia.
NGOs Lay Groundwork for BHR Plan in Guatemala

July 27, 2016

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and a Guatemalan nongovernmental organization have announced their work toward a National Baseline Assessment of Guatemala's implementation of the global business and human rights agenda and their support of a "national action plan" on advancing BHR policies in the country.
HRW: World Bank Project Safeguards Are Insufficient

July 26, 2016

As activist groups place increasing pressure on businesses and development organizations to implement the UN's human rights agenda, Human Rights Watch has expressed disappointment with the World Bank's new framework of environmental and social safeguards in the projects it finances for not including a binding commitment to respect human rights.