UN-BHR

Activists Support Wide-Ranging BHR Treaty Negotiations

October 19, 2016

As the second round of negotiations over a binding UN business and human rights treaty approaches, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has published a summary of contributions by activists and academics showing support for a treaty covering all human rights violations by all companies, regardless of size, across the globe.
ILO Report Targets Companies on Garment Suppliers

October 18, 2016

A report on the garment industry published by the International Labour Organization and the International Finance Corporation demonstrates how international organizations are placing the responsibility on companies, through the business and human rights agenda, to improve working conditions among their suppliers in developing countries.
Japanese Lawyers Issue BHR Guidance

October 18, 2016

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations has issued guidance to companies, and corporate attorneys, on their implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by establishing "due diligence" procedures to assess the potential impact of business operations on the international human rights agenda.
HRW Criticizes FIFA over West Bank Soccer Matches

October 17, 2016

Human Rights Watch has criticized the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) for violating the global business and human rights agenda by sanctioning Israeli soccer matches in what HRW says is "stolen land" in the West Bank on which Israel has established settlements.
Dutch Government Plans BHR "Due Diligence" Policies

October 17, 2016

Responding to a University of Utrecht study on whether Dutch laws imposing a duty of care on corporations satisfy "due diligence" requirements under the global business and human rights agenda, the Dutch Government announced plans to take into account the study's findings in punishing BHR violations using the country's civil and criminal law.
Attorney Describes Growing BHR Pressure in Australia

October 12, 2016

Attorney Marina Kofman has published an article calling on lawyers in Australia, in the face of the growing transposition of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights into national laws and policies, to place pressure on businesses to implement the global BHR agenda in their operations around the world.
NGOs Call for Primacy of BHR Treaty over Trade Deals

October 12, 2016

In advance of negotiations over a binding UN business and human rights treaty in Geneva in late October, a group of nongovernmental organizations have released a summary of a legal seminar in which participants called for a BHR treaty that addresses a wide range of legal issues and would take precedence over international trade and investment deals.
Attorneys Spotlight Corporate Legal Risk of BHR Agenda

October 11, 2016

Emilie Bundock and Kevin O'Callaghan of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP assert that growing corporate acceptance of the global business and human rights agenda has contributed to the need for businesses to construct "robust human rights policies" and could lead to BHR obligations becoming enforceable as part of customary international law.
NGO Pushes BHR Agenda with Clinton, Trump

September 28, 2016

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable has called on this year's US presidential candidates to commit to advancing the UN's business and human rights agenda, including implementing a comprehensive "national action plan" on BHR issues currently in development by the Obama Administration.
NGOs Push for Stronger Italian BHR Action Plan

September 21, 2016

A submission from a group of nongovernmental organizations regarding Italy's proposed National Action Plan on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights encourages the Italian government to amend the plan to tighten regulatory measures requiring corporate BHR due diligence and to widen access to judicial BHR remedies.