UN-BHR

Academic Seeks International Corporate Criminal Liability

June 07, 2016

At a recent presentation at Copenhagen Business School, Dr. Nadia Bernaz of Middlesex University School of Law in London called for the extension of international legal doctrine providing for individual criminal liability to be extended, through a binding international legal instrument, to corporations.
ETI Publishes "Living Wage" Guidance for Supply Chains

June 07, 2016

The Ethical Trading Initiative, a network of companies, trade unions, and nongovernmental organizations, has published guidance for businesses on how to support a "living wage" in their supply chains in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Article Links Fulfillment of Human Rights, SDGs

June 06, 2016

A blog post from Francis West of Unicef UK calls on businesses and governments to recognize that the key to fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030 is to ensure, as a starting point, broad implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
HRW Calls for Binding UN Treaty on Business Supply Chains

June 01, 2016

A Human Rights Watch report calls on countries at the 2016 International Labour Conference in Geneva to seek the development of a binding UN treaty requiring that businesses perform due diligence in investigating potential human rights issues in their global supply chains.
NGOs Launch Government BHR Reporting Initiative

May 25, 2016

The Global Reporting Initiative and Danish Institute for Human Rights have launched an initiative that pushes governments to report their progress toward a national action plan on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and toward implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Shareholders Seek Human Rights Assessments on Mineral Sourcing

May 20, 2016

A nongovernmental organization and the CEO of a company holding shares in Canadian-based Potash Corporation have filed a shareholder resolution that would require Potash to perform, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a human rights impact assessment of its involvement in Western Saraha's phosphate rock market.
UN Rights Chief Seeks More Access to BHR Remedies

May 18, 2016

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has issued a report calling on governments to provide greater access to judicial remedies for alleged victims of violations of the UN's business and human rights agenda in corporate operations and global supply chains.
NGOs Call for BHR Treaty to Prevent "Corporate Capture"

May 18, 2016

A Treaty Alliance of nongovernmental organizations devoted to the adoption of a binding global treaty on the business and human rights has called for such a treaty to contain provisions preventing "corporate capture" of government through interference in the lawmaking and implementation process.
NGO Sets out Options for BHR Redress

May 18, 2016

The International Federation for Human Rights has published an updated guide setting out ways in which alleged victims of violations of the UN's business and human rights agenda can seek remedies and calling on governments to grant effective BHR redress to complainants.
FIFA Considers UN Agenda in Selection of World Cup Host

May 18, 2016

Facing human rights scrutiny from Professor John Ruggie, who authored the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and nongovernmental organizations, the International Federation of Association Football has announced that it will consider social and environmental factors in its consultation process of picking the host of the 2026 World Cup.