Business & Human Rights

Finland Pushes BHR Agenda in Grocery Industry

November 06, 2015

The Finnish Government recently convened a set of roundtable meetings at which it developed a common statement with nongovernmental organizations and representatives of the Finnish grocery industry on how to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR") in relation to grocery supply chains.
NGO Seeks More Bank Reporting, Grievance Mechanisms

November 06, 2015

Ryan Brightwell from the nongovernment organization BankTrack warns that banks are not doing enough to fulfill the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and calls for banks to implement measures to do so through "systematic reporting" of their lending decisions and by establishing "grievance mechanisms" for alleged human-rights violations.
UN Working Group Seeks BHR Data from Businesses, States

November 05, 2015

In a report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") issues highlighted the challenge of measuring corporate and state implementation of the BHR agenda and has called for more reporting from governments and businesses on how they are integrating the UN Guiding Principles on BHR in their policies.
Academic Calls for Global Business Regulation on "Right to Water"

November 05, 2015

In a recently published book chapter, Markus Krajewski of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Law School argues that international standards and legal instruments regulating multinational businesses to protect the right to water is an "increasingly important" aspect of global economic governance.
Paper: Tax Debate Leads to Unrealistic Expectations

November 04, 2015

The Center for Global Development has published a paper concluding that the "polarised" debate between businesses and human-rights activists has led to "exaggerated" expectations of how much corporate taxes can contribute to the development agendas of poor countries and calling for a collaborative dialogue on how to improve tax transparency.