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Law Firm Launches BHR Due Diligence Project
April 13, 2015
The law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law have launched a project that will examine "best practices" for corporations in performing "due diligence" to implement the international business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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NGO Pushes Companies on Coal Use and Human Rights
April 13, 2015
Pushing the link between climate change and human rights as advocated at the UN and among climate activists, the nongovernmental organization Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has publicly contacted 20 companies regarding their generation of energy through "sub-critical coal."
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Guardian Seeks Shift to "Socially Responsible" Investments
April 13, 2015
Neil Berkett of the Guardian Media Group ("GMG") details how GMG has recently sought to implement the UN's social and environmental agenda and is now planning to divest from fossil fuels in order to combat global warming.
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Oxfam Uses "Scorecard" to Pressure Companies over BHR
April 10, 2015
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published the latest version of its Behind the Brands "Company Scorecard," which seeks to shame companies that it says do not take sufficient action to meet the international business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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Oxfam Criticizes IFC's Lack of Focus on BHR
April 10, 2015
A report from the nongovernmental organization Oxfam criticizes the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), a part of the World Bank Group focused on private development, for not monitoring whether its funds are used in projects that do not measure up to the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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