UN-BHR

NGO Details Needs for Impact Assessments

May 11, 2015

In a recent interview, a representative from the nongovernmental organization Business for Social Responsibility described how companies around the world should be performing human rights impact assessments to demonstrate how they are promoting the UN's business and human rights agenda.
Institutions Push for Ambitious EU CSR Strategy

May 07, 2015

The European Network of National Human Rights Institutions has published a document in which it pushes for the EU to adopt broad portions of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR") and other global BHR mechanisms in its upcoming policy on corporate social responsibility ("CSR").
NGOs Push BHR Agenda in Indonesia

May 04, 2015

A group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") recently held a workshop with Indonesian business and civil society representatives in Jakarta calling on businesses to advance the UN's "sustainability" agenda by adopting the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR").
NGO: U.S. NAP Should Include Security Contractor Principles

April 29, 2015

The nongovernmental organization NomoGaia has called on the U.S. Government to include in its National Action Plan ("NAP") on business and human rights a requirement that security contractors agree to a set of global principles and publicize their assessment of their potential human rights impacts.
AI Publishes Comprehensive NAP Proposal for U.S.

April 22, 2015

Amnesty International ("AI") has published a comprehensive proposal for a U.S. National Action Plan ("NAP") on business and human rights ("BHR"), calling for corporate due diligence requirements, removal of obstacles to extraterritorial liability, and U.S. participation in the formation of a binding BHR treaty.
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.