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NGO Produces Test for Effective BHR Treaty
January 08, 2019
A quarterly update from the Business & Human Rights (BHR) Resource Centre raises critiques of the recently published “Zero Draft” of the binding UN treaty on BHR issues and proposes a three-part test of the effectiveness of such a treaty, focused on consultation with stakeholders, creation of proper BHR remedies, and corporate “due diligence” requirements.
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NGO Publishes BHR Priorities for 2019
January 08, 2019
The Institute for Human Rights and Business recently published a list of the top 10 most important business and human rights (BHR) issues in 2019, pushing businesses to help eliminate discrimination across society and increase reporting to investors on BHR issues.
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Roundtable Explores Tension Between BHR Agenda, Investment Deals
January 04, 2019
In September 2018, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (BHR) published a joint report on a roundtable they hosted exploring how to transform international investment agreements to better advance the BHR agenda in the area of “access to justice.”
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Microsoft Seeks Government, Business Action on Facial Recognition
January 04, 2019
President of Microsoft Brad Smith writes that governments must impose regulations on the development of facial-recognition technology, warning that the technology could “exacerbate societal issues,” and announces that his company is launching a framework of principles on facial recognition that could be applied across the tech industry.
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GRI Pushes for BHR-Focused Corporate Reporting
January 03, 2019
In a recent press release, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) described its ongoing efforts, including at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (BHR) in Geneva, to promote “sustainability” reporting as a tool to encourage corporate compliance with global BHR principles and establishment of BHR “due diligence” processes.
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