BHR

NGO Article Calls for BHR National Action Plans

July 23, 2015

An article from leaders of a group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") calls national action plans on business and human rights ("BHR") issues an "important new BHR governance tool" and explores how to increase the future success and credibility of such action plans to advance the UN BHR agenda.
Workshop Pushes Human Rights as Basis for Climate Policies

July 22, 2015

A recent workshop co-hosted by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and the University of Notre Dame Law School called for activists to highlight human rights as the basis of "climate justice" - that is, the push through legal liability and policy tools to force corporations to comply with the UN's agenda against climate change.
Meeting Explores Corporate Prosecution for International Crimes

July 22, 2015

A meeting hosted by the International Law Programme explored various potential means of holding corporations liable for international law crimes around the world, including through litigation, the International Criminal Court, and a new binding treaty on business and international crimes.
NGOs Push for BHR Treaty Focus on All Corporations

July 22, 2015

At a recent meeting of the intergovernmental working group charged with developing a binding UN treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") issues, a group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") called for the BHR treaty to include the activities of all corporations around the globe and to focus on the "transnational operations" of these businesses.
NGO Criticizes EU for Seeking to Undermine BHR Treaty

July 21, 2015

A representative of the nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth Europe has accused EU representatives of seeking to undermine negotiations over a binding UN treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") issues.
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."
Academic: BHR Treaty Should Build on Environmental Precedent

July 16, 2015

Sara Seck of the Faculty of Law at Western University in Canada writes that the working group developing a binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty should consider the past work of the International Law Commission concerning international environmental law, arguing that environmental harm is often closely tied to violations of human rights.