Business & Human Rights

OECD Examines Business Promotion of "Well-Being"

March 01, 2017

As part of its "Better Life Initiative," the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently hosted a workshop in Paris on how to comprehensively measure businesses' promotion of "well-being" in order to encourage them to contribute to the fulfillment of the global "sustainable development" agenda.
NGO Praises French Corporate Reporting Regime

March 01, 2017

The European Coalition for Corporate Justice has praised a recently passed French law requiring large companies to disclose, on an annual basis, their efforts to address human rights impacts in their operations and those of their subsidiaries and calls for the creation of similar but stronger corporate reporting regime at the regional and global level.
NGO Pushes Canadian Corporate Reporting Law

March 01, 2017

Citing multiple examples of mandatory reporting laws from the US, UK, and France, a report from the Shareholder Association for Research & Education calls for Canada to adopt a similar mandatory regime requiring that corporations report to their investors information about labor rights risks in their global supply chains.
Agricultural Lenders Adopt ESG Principles

March 01, 2017

Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance, an alliance of agricultural lending institutions, has adopted a set of "environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles" to promote "socially and environmentally responsible" lending to agricultural projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Report Reveals Broad Discussion on BHR Treaty

March 01, 2017

In its report on the latest consultations on the development of a binding UN treaty on business and human rights (BHR), the Intergovernmental Working Group charged with creating the treaty revealed a wide-ranging discussion on potential provisions requiring both governments and businesses to implement the global BHR agenda.