Business & Human Rights

  • GRI Head Pushes Reporting Standards in Australia

    December 21, 2015

    At a series of events in Australia, Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") Michael Meehan spoke to GRI's "Organizational Stakeholders" and others about the importance of public reporting on environmental and human rights issues to the success of the UN's sustainable development agenda.

  • GRI Emphasizes Connection Between SDGs, Reporting

    December 21, 2015

    The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has published an article calling on businesses to permit third parties to measure their implementation of the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") through GRI standards on public sustainability reporting.

  • UN Agent Seeks Remedies for Forced Labor in Supply Chains

    December 21, 2015

    The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Urmila Bhoola has called on countries to ramp up remedies and corporate liability for alleged forced labor in company supply chains and has pushed businesses to "leverage [their] extensive capacity and resources" to end these practices.

  • ISO Pushes Standards to Combat Climate Change

    December 18, 2015

    In an article released during the UN climate talks in Paris, the International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") highlighted over 570 standards it has produced for businesses on the environment and called for collaboration among standard-producing organizations to close gaps in climate-change standards.

  • Experts Detail Reporting Obligations Under UK Slavery Act

    December 18, 2015

    A group of legal experts from Doughty Street International have published an article on the obligation of UK businesses to report on their efforts to rid their supply chains of forced labor under the country's new Modern Slavery Act and the possible civil and criminal sanctions against companies that fail to sufficiently comply.

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