Business & Human Rights

NGOs Produce Toolkit on Business Security and Human Rights

July 17, 2015

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross have published the second edition of their toolkit for corporate management of security and its impact on human rights, a guide the groups say is a "living document."
Activists Call for Clampdown on "Impunity" Through BHR Treaty

July 17, 2015

Activists from the Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and the Treaty Alliance, both of which have called for the development of a stringent UN business and human rights ("BHR") treaty, are pushing for the treaty to include criminal liability for corporations and their directors for alleged violations of the global BHR and environmental agendas.
NHRIs Push for National Action Plans in Binding BHR Treaty

July 17, 2015

The International Coordinating Committee for national human rights institutions ("NHRIs") has submitted a statement to the working group charged with developing a binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty calling for the treaty to push national BHR action plans and for it to apply both to multinational and domestic companies.
BHR Treaty Submission Seeks Inclusion of "Right to Development"

July 16, 2015

A submission by the Legal Resources Centre to the working group charged with developing a legally binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty calls for the inclusion of a "right to development" in the treaty and pushes for the establishment of an independent agency with prosecutorial powers to enforce this and other rights.
NGO Spotlights Breadth of BHR Agenda

July 16, 2015

Lise Smit of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law writes that under the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") principles, corporations must not only be concerned with respecting human rights in their particular sector, but must ensure they do not impact a broad range of human rights contained in various "internationally recognized documents."