Business & Human Rights

  • U.S. Releases Report on Commitment to Security Provider Principles

    March 18, 2015

    The U.S. State Department recently published its 2014 annual report describing how it has worked to implement the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative and pushed oil, gas, and mining companies to adopt international standards in their provision of security services.

  • U.S. Assumes Chair of Initiative on Principles for Security Providers

    March 18, 2015

    The U.S. State Department has announced that it has assumed the Chairmanship of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative, which pushes oil, gas, and mining companies to implement international standards in providing security for their operations, including through "verification frameworks" for corporate activities.

  • U.S. NAP Consultation Elicits Calls for Substantial Reporting

    March 18, 2015

    Participants at a consultation on the proposed U.S. National Action Plan ("NAP") for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights at Berkeley's Haas School of Business called for the inclusion of robust human rights reporting requirements in the NAP.

  • UN Calls for Business Promotion of "Empowerment Principles"

    March 18, 2015

    At a recent event at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on businesses to advance the organization's "Women's Empowerment Principles," a UN "roadmap" on how businesses can respect and promote women's rights as well as the UN's sustainability agenda.

  • UN Calls for Fossil Fuel Divestment

    March 18, 2015

    As it prepares for a global climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has called for financiers to drop their investments in fossil fuel assets, ignoring warnings from energy representatives that such divestment will not encourage cleaner technologies.

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