Business & Human Rights

  • Businesses Sign on to NGO Initiative on Recruitment

    May 11, 2016

    The Institute for Human Rights and Business has announced that five large companies have joined the NGO-supported Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment that seeks to place pressure on employers around the world to pay the costs of recruitment of their workers.

  • NGO Issues Ambitious Recommendations for BHR Action Plans

    May 11, 2016

    The European Coalition for Corporate Justice has published a Recommendation on National Action Plans that calls on European governments to go beyond business and human rights action plans released so far by imposing tougher regulatory obligations on businesses and developing a variety of remedies for alleged victims of BHR violations.

  • NGO Letter Reiterates Call for Clampdown on "Tax Havens"

    May 11, 2016

    In its bid to fund the economic, social, and cultural human rights agenda through tax revenue in developing countries, Oxfam has published a letter signed by more than 300 economists calling for large countries to crack down on the availability of low-tax jurisdictions to multinational corporations and others using them to store their funds.

  • GRI Seeks Expansion of Reporting Agenda to Small Businesses

    May 11, 2016

    The Global Reporting Initiative has announced that it will use its partnership with the International Organisation of Employers to push its reporting standards on the UN's climate agreement and sustainability agenda among small and medium sized enterprises.

  • British PM Seeks Global Anti-Corruption Agency

    May 06, 2016

    The Guardian reports that, at a summit on countering corruption hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron, the UK Government will push for the establishment of a global anti-corruption agency that would exchange information to help law enforcement authorities detect and prevent corruption and tax evasion.

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