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Lawyers Examine Expanding 2017 BHR Agenda
March 24, 2017
An update from lawyers at the firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP examines tightening restrictions corporations will likely face in 2017 under the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda, including legal reporting and due diligence requirements, BHR national action plans, and civil society efforts to benchmark corporate BHR progress.
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NGOs: UK Must Facilitate Corporate Prosecutions
March 24, 2017
A group of nongovernmental organizations has released a statement calling on the UK to enact criminal law reform that would permit authorities to prosecute companies for alleged human rights abuses and corruption around the world without having to show that corporate executives intended the misconduct to occur.
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EU Rules Push Investor Reporting on Engagement
March 24, 2017
The European Parliament has voted in favor of measures that would require shareholder participation in corporate policies such as director pay to pressure companies to look toward "long-term interests" and force institutional investors to publicly report the extent to which they engage with the companies in which they invest.
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Activist Calls on Businesses to Embrace "Gender Justice"
March 24, 2017
The Institute for Human Rights and Business has published a post from activist Srilatha Batliwala criticizing the alleged complicity of many businesses around the world in suppressing the rights of women and arguing that businesses have an obligation to collaborate on achieving global "gender justice."
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GRI Hosts Africa Workshops on Sustainability
March 23, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) recently held in Ghana the first of a series of workshops it is hosting across Africa calling on companies to use GRI's global sustainability reporting standards to demonstrate their efforts to implement the UN's business and human rights agenda.
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