Business & Human Rights

  • Lundin Petroleum Produces Sustainability Report

    June 10, 2016

    Swedish oil and gas company Lundin Petroleum has published its first annual Sustainability Report under the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative to demonstrate how it is working to implement the UN's social and environmental agenda.

  • Activist Seeks State Action on Supply Chain Labor

    June 09, 2016

    Labor activist Claire Falconer writes that governments relying on a business-centered reporting system on forced work in their supply chains are shirking their duties to protect against labor exploitation and should produce regulations requiring businesses to respond to such problems.

  • ILO Seeks Role in Global Governance of Supply Chains

    June 09, 2016

    The UN's International Labour Organization has published a report on how it can best contribute to the global governance of and international standards on global corporate supply chains in order to fill gaps in their worldwide regulation.

  • GRI Conference Pushes Human Rights Reporting

    June 09, 2016

    At its 5th Global Conference, the Global Reporting Initiative hosted a discussion linking the UN's sustainability agenda and corporate human rights reporting standards and agreed to partner with the Danish Institute on Human Rights to push for national action plans on the UN's business and human rights agenda that include human rights and sustainability reporting.

  • Companies Face Complex Array of Reporting Policies

    June 09, 2016

    A report released by the UN Environment Programme, KPMG International, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa shows the expanding effect of the encouragement of corporate reporting policies around the world but highlights the difficulties of businesses in navigating a complex array of competing reporting standards.

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