Business & Human Rights

  • UK Plans Reporting on Gender Pay Gaps

    February 22, 2016

    The Independent reports that the British Government is planning a proposal that would require companies with over 250 employees to publish information on disparities in compensation between male and female employees and that would provide for a table that lists the "worst offenders."

  • IOE Chief Highlights Complexity of Business Supply Chains

    February 19, 2016

    Secretary-General of the International Organization of Employers ("IOE") Linda Kromjong describes the complications of performing due diligence on often-complex supply chains and calls for support to companies seeking to fulfill supply-chain provisions of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

  • GRI Forms Network to Push SDGs

    February 19, 2016

    The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has announced a GOLD Community to gather businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and intergovernmental agencies that wish to further the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") through GRI's reporting techniques.

  • GRI Plans Next Phase in "Sustainability" Reporting

    February 19, 2016

    The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has published an article describing the influence it has had in encouraging companies to report on social and environmental "sustainability" and calls for a future where companies draw information from such reports "into the heart of operations."

  • NGO Seeks BHR-Compliant Financial System

    February 17, 2016

    A report produced by the Institute for Human Rights and Business reviews how countries can create financial systems that comply with and fund the facilitation of "sustainable livelihoods and societies" through the UN's agendas on climate change and business and human rights ("BHR").

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