BHR

NGO Launches UNGP Reporting Database

April 07, 2016

Nongovernmental organization Shift has developed a UN Guiding Principles ("UNGP") Reporting Database in which it compile information from corporate websites and reports relating to their implementation of the UN's business and human rights agenda.
Lawyers Take up BHR Agenda

April 06, 2016

Marialuisa Taddia writes that, facing pressure from UN agencies and activists to counsel clients to implement global business and human rights ("BHR") principles, lawyers and law firms are finding opportunities to carve out lucrative BHR practices but are also encountering challenges in adapting their own business practices to meet the demands of the agenda.
NGOs Call for G7 Follow-up on BHR Agenda

April 06, 2016

Praising leaders of past Group of Seven ("G7") summits for addressing the implementation of the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda, a group of nongovernmental organizations is calling for Japan, as the current G7 chair, to ensure that the next summit includes a discussion of BHR issues, including supply chain standards and adoption of BHR national action plans.
Norway Wealth Fund Implements BHR Agenda

April 06, 2016

Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund, has adopted a human rights policy requiring companies in which it invests to integrate a human rights strategy in their operations and to report on their performance, key tenets in the implementation of the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
BP Implements Activists' BHR Agenda

April 01, 2016

The CEO of the nongovernmental organization Human Rights at Sea, David Hammond, has published an article highlighting how energy company BP, in the face of pressure from the UN and activists, has embraced the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda, including by undertaking BHR due diligence and committing to external audits.
Australia Announces Consultations on BHR Implementation

March 30, 2016

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights reports that the Australian Government has responded to its recent Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council by announcing consultations on its implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR"), which may lead to the development of an Australian BHR "national action plan."
Academic: International Courts May Help "Shame" Businesses

March 23, 2016

In a review of an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ("IACHR") decision dealing with business and human rights ("BHR") issues, Professor Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli of La Sabana University in Colombia praised the IACHR for facilitating the "shaming" of companies that violate the BHR agenda.
Resigning Official: UN Must Confront Companies on BHR

March 23, 2016

In her letter of resignation, former member of the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") issues Margaret Jungk called for the UN to do more to pressure businesses directly on fulfilling the BHR agenda, including through "missions" to and hearings on companies' BHR records.
Group Hosts Meeting on HRIAs in Tourism

March 21, 2016

A group called Roundtable Human Rights in Tourism recently hosted a meeting with business representatives in Berlin to emphasize the importance of human rights impact assessments ("HRIAs") in the tourism industry to comply with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Australian Law Council Pushes BHR Promotion

March 17, 2016

The Law Council of Australia has published a background paper calling on industries across the country, in particular the Australian legal profession, to "raise awareness of and encourage compliance with" the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR").