UN-BHR

NGOs Complain of Corporate Lawsuits Against Activists

August 04, 2017

Two representatives of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre warn that companies are using "judicial harassment" - such as suing for defamation or for destruction of property - to block "accountability" from human rights activists across the globe.
NGOs: EU Must Address Foreign "Land Grabs"

August 04, 2017

A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a report asserting that EU institutions and member states have been complicit in their businesses' human rights-violating "land grabs" in foreign countries and calling on officials to address these problems through measures such as human rights impact assessments and an EU-wide mechanism to evaluate complaints.
NGO: FIFA Must Show Concrete BHR Commitments

August 03, 2017

An article published by Amnesty International expresses concern that the recent moves of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to host meetings in Bahrain and to partner with state-owned Qatar Airways signal its intent not to follow through on pledges to embed the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda in its policies.
NGOs Push G20 to Coordinate on BHR Policies

August 03, 2017

An event hosted in Berlin by a set of nongovernmental organizations focused on pressing Group of 20 countries (G20) to coordinate on measures forcing businesses to take action on "identifying, avoiding, mitigating, and remedying" violations of the business and human rights (BHR) agenda throughout their complex, global supply chains.
NGO Calls on France to Facilitate BHR Lawsuits

August 03, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Sherpa has issued a press release praising parts of the recently published French National Action Plan on business and human rights (BHR), including reinforcement of a "duty of care" standard for businesses on BHR issues, but calling for additional provisions facilitating the filing of BHR lawsuits against French companies.
Paper: French Law Pursues BHR "Due Diligence" Principles

August 03, 2017

The International Bar Association (IBA) has published an article describing how a recently passed French law imposing a duty of "vigilance" on companies to monitor and report their efforts to reduce their negative global business and human rights (BHR) impacts is based in the corporate duty of "human rights due diligence" set out in the UN Guiding Principles on BHR.
AU Develops Continental BHR Action Plan

August 03, 2017

According to Romola Adeola of McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, the African Union's (AU) plans to develop a continent-wide action plan to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) will help countries address BHR issues relating to land acquisition and environmental pollution.
NGO Seeks "Due Diligence" on Recruitment Processes

August 03, 2017

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has produced global guidance calling for corporations to perform "human rights due diligence" throughout their recruitment process and suppliers to eliminate forced labor and "ethical recruitment" of migrant workers.
NGO: Australia Should Require Due Diligence in Supply Chains

August 03, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Law Centre has urged the Australian government to require companies to perform human rights "due diligence" across their foreign supply chains as a step toward fulfilling the country’s “international obligations” under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
NGO Calls for BHR Treaty to Regulate Trade Deals

August 01, 2017

A report from CIDSE, a network of Catholic social justice organizations, calls for any future UN treaty on business and human rights (BHR) to force countries negotiating trade and investment agreements to take into account global BHR principles, including requiring governments to perform a "human rights impact assessment" before concluding any trade deal.