BHR

NGOs Launch Swiss BHR Initiative

April 22, 2015

A new Swiss organization called the Responsible Business Initiative has announced that it will push Switzerland to require corporate due diligence on issues relating to the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and to provide for liability of corporations that violate BHR standards abroad.
NGO Calls for U.S. NAP to Address Domestic Issues

April 22, 2015

As the U.S. develops its National Action Plan ("NAP") for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR"), the BHR Resource Centre argues that focusing the NAP on corporate conduct abroad is insufficient and that the U.S. should extend the NAP to domestic BHR issues.
Lawyers Renew Call for BHR Arbitration Tribunal

April 15, 2015

Attorneys Claes Cronstedt and Robert Thompson have issued the fifth version of a paper calling for the creation of an international arbitration tribunal on business and human rights ("BHR"), concluding that the international Permanent Court of Arbitration should establish the tribunal.
NGO Calls for BHR Prosecution by African Court of Justice

April 15, 2015

John Paul Ongeso of the African Legal Centre writes that in light of the limited impact so far of international business and human rights ("BHR") initiatives, the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights should take up the prosecution of BHR cases against corporations.
NYU Program Calls on IBA to Strengthen BHR Guidance

April 15, 2015

Michael Posner and Sarah Labowitz of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights ("BHR") have published a letter calling on the International Bar Association ("IBA") to amend its bar association BHR guidance to focus its approach on "substantive industry standards" rather than internal processes.
NGO Produces BHR Guide to South Africa

April 14, 2015

The Danish Institute for Human Rights and the South African Human Rights Commission have published a Human Rights and Business ("BHR") Country Guide to South Africa as part of the global effort to push businesses and governments to advance the UN's BHR agenda.
Activists Criticize Coca-Cola BHR Efforts as Insufficient

April 09, 2015

A group of activists and others at a recent World Bank conference criticized a Coca-Cola report denying so-called "land grabs" by its sugar suppliers in Guatemala as insufficient and sought an array of information on the right of the sugar suppliers to their land.
UN Official: Countries Face "Duty" to Uphold BHR Standards

April 08, 2015

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein writes that governments face a "duty" under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR") to hold companies to account through their court systems for alleged human rights violations.
NGO Calls for "Comprehensive" Irish NAP

April 08, 2015

Lorna Gold of the nongovernmental organization Trocaire has called for Ireland to include in its national action plan ("NAP") for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights the facilitation of foreign claims against Irish businesses and required human rights due diligence procedures.
NGO Decries "Privatization" of BHR Standards

April 08, 2015

The nongovernmental organization Rights and Accountability in Development has accused transnational corporations of taking over the implementation of UN business and human rights ("BHR") standards.