Business & Human Rights

  • AI Pushes Measures to Reduce Financing for Firearms

    February 08, 2016

    Amnesty International ("AI") has published a report calling on Luxembourg to pass laws restricting financing by the country's banking sector of the production and transfer of various arms and pressuring banks to adopt policies addressing what AI deems to be their international legal obligation to restrict funding for firearms.

  • NGOs Select Companies for Monitoring on BHR Compliance

    February 05, 2016

    A coalition of nongovernmental organizations including the Business & Human Rights ("BHR") Resource Centre has published its criteria for the selection of 100 companies to be monitored in 2016 as part of the coalition's pilot Corporate Human Rights Benchmark program on implementation of the global BHR agenda.

  • NGO Publishes "Toolbox" for BHR Impact Assessments

    February 05, 2016

    The Danish Institute for Human Rights has published guidance for businesses to develop "impact assessments" considering how their operations might fuel violations of the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and for human rights activists to monitor the outcomes of these assessments.

  • NGO Criticizes Draft EU Mineral Sourcing Law

    February 04, 2016

    The nongovernmental organization Global Witness has warned that the voluntary, limited nature of a proposal from EU member states seeking to regulate corporate sourcing of minerals from war-torn areas of Africa, to be negotiated by EU officials in Strasbourg in February, will fail "to reduce global conflict."

  • Lawyers Review Expansion in UK Corporate Liability

    February 04, 2016

    In a recent article, Andrew Smith and Danielle Reece-Greenhalgh of the law firm Corker Binning examine the status of corporate criminal liability in the UK and predict a potential expansion in the liability of companies in British courts for their conduct, including alleged human rights violations, in foreign countries.

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