Business & Human Rights

NGO Launches AI Human Rights Campaign

August 17, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Amnesty International has launched a campaign pushing to ensure that developers of artificial intelligence (AI) applications embed global human rights principles, including "economic, social, and cultural rights," in AI technologies.
NGO Supports Global, Strategic BHR Litigation

August 17, 2017

An essay from two representatives of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights reviews recent lawsuits against companies over alleged business and human rights (BHR) violations in their global supply chains and calls for "strategic and coordinated" BHR litigation to force businesses to redress their BHR impacts.
California Climate Lawsuit Pushes Novel Liability Theories

August 16, 2017

Lawyers from Ropes & Gray LLP write that a lawsuit filed by three coastal California communities against oil, gas, and coal companies for their alleged contribution to global warming and a corresponding rise in sea levels could, through their novel theories of liability, mark a "turning point in corporate social responsibility litigation."
Project Pushes for Corporate Responsibility in Iran

August 16, 2017

International lawyers have launched an Iran Business Responsibility project that seeks to push companies to adopt "responsible business standards," taking into account their human rights and environmental impacts, when they take advantage of the lowering of international sanctions on Iran by investing in the country.
Academic Explores Legislation on BHR Due Diligence, Reporting

August 16, 2017

Justine Nolan University of New South Wales has published a paper exploring how the UN and global human rights and environmental activists have succeeded in pushing countries like Australia to force businesses to use "traditional corporate concepts," including "due diligence" and public reporting, to advance the business and human rights (BHR) agenda in their supply chains.