Business & Human Rights

NGO Seeks Prosecution of BHR-Violating Companies

December 22, 2015

A report from the UK nongovernmental organization Traidcraft has called for the British Government to prosecute companies that commit "serious" violations of the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda in other countries.
Academic Charts Path for Foreign Human-Rights Suits in US

December 22, 2015

In a law review article, Cortelyou Kenney of Stanford Law School argues that there is "hope" for litigants of foreign human-rights lawsuits against corporations in US courts to succeed in obtaining remedies by using novel legal arguments to circumvent US Supreme Court jurisprudence limiting the hearing of such foreign cases.
NGO Criticizes EU for Not Supporting BHR Treaty

December 22, 2015

The nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth Europe has published a paper deriding the EU and its member states for supporting "corporate rights" through an investor-state dispute mechanism in its trade agreements but taking measures to oppose a wide-ranging, binding UN treaty on business and human rights ("BHR").
GRI Head Pushes Reporting Standards in Australia

December 21, 2015

At a series of events in Australia, Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") Michael Meehan spoke to GRI's "Organizational Stakeholders" and others about the importance of public reporting on environmental and human rights issues to the success of the UN's sustainable development agenda.
GRI Emphasizes Connection Between SDGs, Reporting

December 21, 2015

The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has published an article calling on businesses to permit third parties to measure their implementation of the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") through GRI standards on public sustainability reporting.