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Scotland Releases National BHR Assessment
November 07, 2016
As part of its development of a Scottish National Action Plan for Human Rights, the Scottish Human Rights Commission has developed, with two nongovernmental organizations, a National Baseline Assessment on Business and Human Rights (BHR) to determine where the country currently stands on implementing the BHR agenda.
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Law Firm Uses Survey to Promote BHR Agenda
November 07, 2016
Law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is using a survey showing an increase in knowledge among in-house counsel about the global business and human rights agenda to call on lawyers to "go beyond what is strictly required under the law" by advising companies on BHR issues to avoid reputational impacts.
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NGOs Use Environmental Precedent for BHR Treaty
November 07, 2016
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations called CIVICUS has called on negotiators of a binding treaty on business and human rights (BHR) issues to use the Aarhus Convention, an instrument requiring countries to offer procedural rights on environmental matters, as a model for a BHR treaty that recognizes citizens' "right to information" on corporate human rights impacts.
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ILO Convenes Business "Social Protection" Network
November 04, 2016
The International Labour Organization's Global Business Network for Social Protection Floors recently met in Geneva to discuss how to advance their efforts to expand "social protection" schemes within their business operations and to push governments to recognize the need for "national social protection floors."
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Paper Dismisses Duty of Extraterritorial BHR Regulation
November 04, 2016
Claire Methven O’Brien writes in favor of the position of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, but spurned by BHR advocates pushing for states to do more to punish multinational corporations for foreign human rights violations, that governments have no international human rights obligation to prevent BHR abuses committed abroad.
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